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"Thoughts Brought Back From Over There" 

Selected Poems, Letters, Essays, 

Tributes and Addresses of 

18 Months Past. 



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"FROM THE ANVIL OF WAR" 

By 

WYTHE LEIGH KINSOLVING, 

M. A.; B. D. 



Author of 
"Even So I Send You" and "The River of Thought' 



1919 

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Copyright, April 1919. 
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PREFACE 

These poems, letters and addresses "dipped from the run- 
ning stream" of the author's thought, voice his longings 
for unity of the nations in the peace pact and unity of 
Christians in a world-church. The one is here, the other 
may soon come. Thus these letters and essays may be 
timely and interesting to many minds. Though the book 
be versatile in subject-matter, these two themes haunt 
the whole, and blend all the notes into harmony. 



LETTER FROM NOVA SCOTIA. 



Mr. Editor: Three times in the last four years the writer has 
been in Canada, and each visit seems to afford the best possible reason 
for coming again. This region, immortalized by Longfellow in "Evan- 
geline," is peculiarly full of charm. Here where I write Annapolis 
basin stretches out its arms and Digby lies opposite me in its lap. 
"The gap" the only outlet to the Bay of Fundy, is seen out at the right. 
A great basaltic ridge runs for miles, enclosing the basin and opposing 
its rocky steep on the other side to the surging waters of the bay. 
Here, on this point, Bishop Jaggar, of Ohio, bought a home, where 
he cultivated the arts, read, thought and wrote, amid the quietude 
and placid calm of nature. A musician, a painter, whose copies of 
beautiful works of art are remarkably exact; a great preacher, elo- 
quent, forceful, evangelical in doctrine; a lecturer, whose published 
books bear witness to his careful study and fine thought, Bishop 
Jaggar left here in this home many most interesting memorials of his 
versatile life. 

Three summers ago the writer spent a week or ten days upon the 
Saguenay River, the most beautiful he has ever seen, even on four 
trips abroad. The following summer amid the Thousand Islands of 
the great St. Lawrence he was privileged to revel in the unique and 
marvelous beauty of that exquisite region. But here, one is closer to 
primitive and unadorned nature. True, a few summer hotels are 
found within a mile or two. A good many clergymen visit this region 
now and then, and our service is held every Sunday at Smith's Cove, 
near us, in a Methodist church. Here at the close ol August large 
logs burn in a big fireplace in the evening. One walks miles with no 
sense of fatigue. Tonic, bracing air, restores the energy sapped by 
city summer heat. Even more enthusiastically than ever before, 
"Canada for the summer," say I to all who can make the journey even 
for a short stay. 

Out in an armlet of the basin near this house the fishermen have 
built a weir, consisting of stakes driven and interwoven saplings, so 
that when the tide brings in the fish they are caught in the weir and 
picked up later when the tide goes out. 

Some of the original Acadians who were not carried away in the 
time of the great deportation still live not far from here. One does not 
see the large number of Canadian French, however, which are found 
iv Quebec and up the Saguenay. 

WYTHE LEIGH KINSOLVTNG. 
"Kelpie Lodge," Digby, Nova Scotia. 



Written at "Camp I," Near the Somme-Suippe District, North el 

Chalons and East of Rheims, Almost on the French Line of Bat- 

tie, in December 1917. 



I have slept in a bunk at the E. H. 8. 

I have roomed at the U. Va. 
I have slept in a tent while I ate at the "meat" 

At Fort Myer two months and a day 
I have lived in a four berth stateroom full 

Each bed like a Pullman berth. 
In a sixth floor apartment in New York 

We lived in joy and mirth. 
But "Camp I" Y. M. C. A. FOYER 

Where I sleep at the kitchen end 
Is the place surpassing, let me say, 

Any place I've slept Heaven defend 
All souls from the cats, and the noise and the cold, 

And the food which we all have here, 
Which is horse, 'black bread,' sour wine; I'm told 

That the "poilus" come for cheer 
To this barrack bare with its floorless chill. 

Yes, I've seen them crowd by scores 
To our "guichet," where I've served them till 

I was colder than outdoors: 
Two sheets of paper for each man, 

Perhaps a game of "Jacques"; 
Yet these are the men since the war began 

That have hurled the Hun hordes back! 
Yet these were the men who met the fire 

Of the German tyrant's guns 
And I hear their ire! Their five hours ire! 

As they beat back Deutchland's sons. 



CHRISTMAS AT RIMAUCOURT 



(By a Worker with the Y. M. C. A. 1917-18.) 
It was near a camp, where up and down 

The village streets the soldiers' feet 
Beat on the snow through all the town, 

And voices rang when they would greet. 
Upon the small hotel "Guyot's" 

"Seconde Etage," two rooms were kept; 
The one our canteen stock disclosed; 

The other, where the writer slept. 
"Sweet Corporals" and "Lucky Stripe," 

"Bull Durham" and the other brands 
Passed rapidly from cartons new 

Into the "Doughboys" eager hands, 
The afternoon when I arrived, 



Finding no doors between the rooms 
And getting aid I soon contrived 

To find a stove which just consumes 
The boxes which have held the stock 

I'm selling for Y. M. C. A. 
Besides a rare, small, wooden block, 

Brought by some "Doughboy" U. S. A. 
These rooms are cold, you bet your life! 

Yet they are warmer than outdoors. 
Privations when the world's at strife 

Are scarcely what a man deplores. 
In three weeks' time three thousand francs 

Were taken o'er the counter there. 
On Sunday on some new laid planks 

Within a half -floored barrack bare 
Two hundred men knelt down to share 

The Saviour's Sacrament of love 
From rough-hewn-table and stone-ware, 

Paten, plain glass for grail! Above 
God reigns despite the evil hour. 

Of justice, cle?nness, honor, right, 
Of God of Christ, of Truth, of Power. 

On Sunday morning and at night 
We tell these men by word and deed. 

(Tho in a barrack incomplete, 
The Sunday next a floorless one) 

The following Sunday morn I greet 
The soldiers in a hall, alone, 

Where formerly a picture-show 
Was offered to the village French. 

But which we've fitted up just so 
Our men can find a fire and bench. 

One other scene: Tis Christmas Eve! 
Twelve hundred men are gathered now 

Within the Roman Church; believe 
Five hundred children teach us how 

To look for "Noel" with delight! 
We hand the carols to the men. 

"While shepherds watched their flocks by night/ 
"O Little Town of Bethlehem!" 

Then tell these men of God's Great "Gift" 
Of Jesus Christ, His Only Son. 

Then tell the children (making shift 
To speak in French to everyone.) 

The children then receive their toys. 

And now the regimental band 

Bursts forth in harmonies. All stand 
Men shout our war-songs. Girls and boys 

Look on amazed at soldiers' mirth; 
JJappy, howe'er with dolls and sweets; 



While chime the Church-bells Peace on earth, 
And now the Roman Pastor greets 

His own and bids to Mid-Night Mass 
To usher in The Christ-Child-King! 

Thus did the Eve of Christmas pass. i 

And o'er the snow the sweet bells ring. 

Thus RIMAUCOURT, French Village dear 
To memory! I hail Thee Friend. 

To all Thy people, then, Good Cheer! 
God's Peace to Thee without an end! 

Blest be Thy children, far and near! 

(Written at Rimaucourt in January 1918, Revised Feb- 
ruary, 1919 in Chattanooga.) 



TRICOLOR AND STARS AND STRIPES 



Written in January, 1918, in France. 
He was a trim, neat, khaki-vested colonel; 

She was a dainty damsel wholly French. 
She never saw the Champs Elysees vernal; 

He never knew the beauties of a trench! 
She was encountered in a Bordeaux "diner," 

Daintily lunching with her own "naman." 
He, dapper, gay, just off an ocean liner, 

Caught first a glimpse of her and saw her yawn. 
Yawns can be pretty if red lips are parted, 

And half-closed eyes of blue are seen to shine, 
If from their azure depths a glance just started 

Falls ere it reaches you with light divine! 
Then, if a dainty purse should fall, just gliding 

Out of lap of velvet to the floor, 
What would you do, monsieur, now be confiding, 

Would you not haste the trinket to restore? 
So did the colonel, leaving his own table, 

Dropping the ashes of his "U. S." cigar. 
Scarce did he dream of friendships strong and stable 

Yet Cupid is still busy, e'en in war! 
Months have elapsed, and in a lovely chateau 

Sits there a maiden by an open fire, 
Holding a paper in her hand jewel-laden, 

Reading a message just received by wire: 
"On to Berlin" runs the dispatch all briefly — 

"Regiment drove the Germans yesterday 
Out of their trenches, prisoners thousands, chiefly 

Men of the kaiser's chosen: Ours the day!" 
Germaine arising held both her hands extended; 

Out of a full heart sighed a thanksgiving deep, 
Sounded the bell, and knowing her seance ended 

Once more consigns her soul to gentle sleep. 



Stirring events are passing near the border 

Germans are flying, armies are on their way; 
Soldiers American in splendid order 

Move on the flying foe and win the day. 
"Col. Swayne," a message rings from Pershing, 

"Rises to rank of general this date." 
Germaine receives this news of happy presage, 

Standing rose-bud in hand, near the chateau gate. 
Then in a month at Trinity in Paris, 

Avenue de L'Alma wedding bells are rung, 
Then down at Saint Sebastian where the air is 

Balmy in summer, gorgeous flowers among, 
Spend they their honeymoon in sweet rejoicing 

Over the termination of a war 
Which has brought liberty to millions, voicing 

God's will and man's to drive misrule afar! 



TRIBUTE TO FRANCE 

(Since going to Chattanooga as supply to Dr. Loaring Clark, rector 
of St. Paul's Church, Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving has added a stanza 
to the poem he wrote, "To France," originally printed in the Evening 
Journal last May. The Chattanooga News, in publishing the poem, 
precedes by telling that Mr. Kinsolving has demonstrated his ability 
as a preacher and pastor. It will be remembered that he served in the 
Y. M. C. A. work in France before going to Chattanooga. St. Paul's 
is a church of nine hundred members. Here is the completed poem:) 

(May, 1918) 

My heart hath been in France! 

These many days my heart hath been in France. 

I've lived amid the storming crash of guns! 

I've seen the splendid courage of her sons! 

Great France! Ah, yea! My heart hath been in France! 

My soul hath soared to France! 

Full many times my soul hath soared to France. 

I've knelt beside the wounded soldiers there! 

I've offered to God a fervent prayer 

For France, brave France, 

Strong, noble, gallant France! 

Now I would be in France! 
A hundred thousand soldiers of our land, 
Americans as free as men of France, 
Americans, with gratitude to France, 
Shall fight beside the warriors of France! 

Then hasten, oh, my countrymen, to France! 
The world's great cause of right and justice hangs 
Within the balances that swing in France. 
Yea, where the ruthless battle clamor clangs 
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The cause of human liberty there hangs! 
Hasten! O, sons of our beloved land, 
Hasten to aid, and with our legions stand. 
Great France! Fair France! 
God grant, I, too, may go with you to France! 

(August, 1918) 
And I have been in France, tear stained but smiling France: 
I've heard the deafening roar of German ffuns, 
I've seen the wreckage wrought by heartless Huns; 
I've burned with admiration of the sons 
Of France, great France, heroic, dauntless France. 

Three million soldiers of our native land, 
Unyielding, strong, chivalric, mighty, grand, 
Unconquerable, by God's helping hand, 
Shall crush the cruel invading hosts and brand 
The stigma of defeat upon that band 
Of murderous, marauding myrmidons 
Who desolated Belgium, Serbia, France; 
Who burned and raped and harrowed northern France, 
Great France, fair France, invincible, triumphant, glorious 
France T 



WOODROW WILSON 

A statesman unaffrighted by the jeers 

Of smaller men, whose valor is their boast; 
A seer, in whose vision glistens tears 

Shed by bereaved women, coast to coast. 
A president who makes the title ring 

Upon the ears of time with sacred fame. 
An honor greater than to be a king, 

Because no monarch's power can be the same 
As that of him who moves the world to peace; 

Who, though he momentarily do fail, 
Shall at the end, to weary souls surcease 

And respite bring. Therefore, Wilson, all hail! 
Thy name encircling earth with all the suns, 

Shall sound upon all lips with Washington's! 
(April 1917) 



TO THE MEN WHO WEAR THE KHAKI 



Oh! I love the shade of khaki, for it stands for something fine: 
For Duty and for Honor, for a Will almost divine; 

To suffer, bear and conquer, in the name of Him who died, 
Pearing all mankind's big burden— fojlpwing ^he Crucified,, 



Yea, full well I love the khaki; 'tis a modest kind of dress} 
Not bizarre, nor boasting, either; like plain dirt in sim- 
pleness, 

But the men who wear the khaki grow in soul from day to day, 
Learning sacrifice and loving fealty to the U. S. A. 

Then again I love the khaki, as the color Pershing wears, 

Emblem of his royal nature and the title that he bears, 
Representing our Great Mother whom we love with filial 
zeal — 
Yea, the khaki on our bodies seems to shout the things we 
feel! 

Aye, full well I love the khaki; 'tis the symbol of our claim 
To the spirit of ambition void of ev'ry selfish aim — 

Just the will to break oppression and to free the sons of men 
From despotic power and brutal and to bring real peace 
again. 

Ah, I truly love the khaki! Tis a robe of spotless tint, 
Not assoiled by love of conquest nor lucre's sheen and 
glint; 

Tis a uniform of beauty born of spiritual desire 
To perform a sacred duty full of zeal and holy fire! 

Then because I love the khaki, let it worthily become 
Me, the emblem of my fealty to the land which is my home, 

And the symbol of ideals born of crises in her past 
Which have sanctified her record that beyond the stars shall 
last! 

Just because I love the khaki, God in heaven keep me pure; 

Let me not assoil my manhood, nor be led by lust or lure; 
In sobriety and patience let me battle for the right, 

And condemn on earth the motto that declares that "Might 
makes right!" 

Then, I love the glorious khaki which reveals a nation's heart 
Throbbing now to save all nations, on tiptoe to do her part 

In o'ercoming wrong and evil and establishing the good, 
While the angels in God's presence cry in joy: "We knew 
she would!" 

When I wear the mighty khaki, sign and mark of what I love, 

I revere my mother's standards born of Christ, the King 
above; 
And just as He died to save us so I'll die if need shall be, 

So to emulate His spirit in my will to make men free! 
Men, oh men who wear the khaki, keep unsullied, pure and 
clean 

This, the visible fair token of things spiritual, unseen; 
Let the sacramental emblem of a people's purpose fine 

Shed a radiance supernal on your action in the JjneJ 
Written Jp France, January, 1918, 



A CHRISTMAS CAROL— 1918. 



(By Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, of St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church) 
Holy Jesus, born in the stable-cave, 

God in the flesh Thou art ! 
Born of the spotless Virgin, born to save, 

Thy life's blood to impart! 
Heralded Lord, foretold to Thy mother's heart! 

"Hail Mary!" — God, the Almighty's choice! 
"Blessed art thou among women!" Mother of God tho art! 

Well might her Virgin mother's heart rejoice! 
"My soul doth magnify the Lord," she said, 

"My spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Savior." 
The Virgin breast, the Virgin womb, instead 

Of fear, found joy, revealed in her behavior. 
O Word Eternal by Whom the heavens were made! 

God in the flesh Thou wast born, 
Under the starlight in Bethlehem's cave low-laid 

On that first triumphant Christmas morn. 
God, very God, everlasting God art Thou! 

Worshiped, adored, by Cherubim, Seraphim, 
Angels and men and all Thy creatures, now, 

Then and forever, in one eternal hymn. 



HYMN 

For the Southern Churchman. 

Wythe Leigh Kinsolving. 
I. 
On Thee, my Saviour, do I cast my fears: 

Thou midst the raging billows on the lake 
Say'st, "Peace, be still!" and in the vessel's wake, 
Lo! o'er the water black, great calm appears. 
II. 
On Thee, my Saviour, do I cast my doubts: 

Thou, hearing Thomas cry for proof of sense, 
Baring Thy side, forgiving his offense, 

Showed'st him Thy wounds to put distrust to rout. 
III. 
On Thee, my Saviour, do I cast my cares: 

Thou hadst on earth not where to lay Thy head; 
Yet on the Mount didst bid us pray for bread 
And trust in God who numbereth our hairs. 
IV. 
On Thee, my Saviour, do I cast my hopes: 

Thou sawest a vision of the world redeemed, 
When past Thy Cross the light of victory gleamed, 
Cleaving the gloom, o'er Golgotha's dark slopes. 
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V. 

On Thee, my Saviour, do I cast my love: 

Thou hadst the love of women and of men; 
Blending both men and women in Thee, then, 

When Thou on earth show'dst life of Heaven above. 
VI. 
My fears, my doubts and cares, my hopes and love I bring 

All to Thy feet, and kneeling there, my Lord, 
Crying "Rabboni," "Master!" worshipping 

Thee I await Thy peace; Thy pardoning word! 



THEY WENT TO THE WAR WITH A SONG 



They went to the war with a song, with a swing, with a shout; 
They went to the camp, to the port, to the ship then ashore, 
With a firm, strong stride, with a heart that was free from 
doubt; 
With a will like steel, with a trust in God evermore! 
They were cold; yea, they slept ofttime in a cold, dark loft; 
They were tired; yea, they marched and they worked 
as ne'er before; 
But their spirit was true and bright. They were men not soft, 
But with muscles as hard as flint; they were clean to the 
core. 
When they went o'er the top, did they stop for machine gun 
fire? 
Did they fear dark death, did they cringe like a beast that 
cowers ? 
Did the pallor of fear pale their cheeks 'mid the conflict dire ? 
Did they lose their grip in the trench in the long dread 
hours ? 
Nay! They went to the war with a choral, strong and gay; 

They fought till the end with a purpose glorified. 
Let us meet them, greet them, bless them from day to day; 
For they went to the war, and won — our men! Our pride! 

Chattanooga News. 



TO A LITTLE GIRL ON ROLLER SKATES 

For the Southern Churchman, April 28, 1917 



Wythe Leigh Kinsolving. 



0, dark-haired girl, with dark-lash'd, gentle eyes, 
Of late, on roller skates, your rhythmic sway, 

Like rippling melody, I saw, one day, 
And now would paint your picture, sonnet- wise; 

For it is beautiful, and strangely sweet; 

Your voice, like Horace's Brundisian streams; 

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Your smile, star-radiant, mystically gleams 

Upon your face with purity replete. 
Rare music might your movement represent, 

But verse may fail. The heart's muse seemeth dumb 
When you, with gliding magic, swiftly come 

Into my fancy, whitely innocent: 
A poem of God art thou, which 'tis not meant 

For man to translate to the full intent. 



REPRISALS 



To the Editor of the Timas-Dispatch: 

Sir, — Editorials, as well as public letters, are eminently important 
in awakening the popular mind to dangers in the present unprece- 
dented crisis in history. Your editorial on "Reprisals" should have 
great weight in reminding us we are not in the war for vindictiveness 
nor victory by the methods of Attila or Genghis Khan. 

"Any retaliation or act done in retaliation" is the definition of 
"reprisal" in the Century Dictionary that seems to fit the case under 
discussion. Retaliation is giving back such as one has received. If 
the principle of reprisals should triumph, the British would give back 
just such cold, heartless murder of babies and women as defenseless 
homes of the islands have suffered from. Our noble President has put 
us on record as fighting for humanity. We must let it be plainly un- 
derstood we do not fight for the principle of inhumanity. We cannot 
condone the effacement of the humane instincts. 

Let us congratulate Archbishop Davidson, of Canterbury, that he 
has declared himself against such conduct on the part of the British 
government. We are fighting for the higher principles of common 
human life. Neither America nor any one of the entente should stoop 
to the standards of the foes; debase their plane of national conduct to 
that of the enemy; nor seek to imitate the relentless barbarism of in- 
sensate "Schrecklicheit!" 
Richmond, June 26. 



THE ONLY PERMANENT PEACE 

To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch: 

Sir, — It is no anomaly for one to have most pacific views, to be 
bitterly opposed to war, and heartily in favor of the abolition of arma- 
ments and the establishment of an international court and a league to 
enforce peace; and that the same person should be morally convinced 
of the need of the allies continuing the present European war. 

If permanent peace is sought, it must be based upon righteousness 
and justice. Those that cry, "Peace! Peace! when there is no peace" 
are those who desire to cease fighting at a moment when they can 
claim spoils for themselves. With the human race outraged, there can 
be no peace until the human race's dignity is vindicated. While Ger- 
many dictates the terms of peace there can be no such vindication, 
Richmond, January 1, 1917. 

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LESSONS OF A BIT OF HISTORY 



To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch: 

Sir, — The death of Count Zeppelin recalls to my mother's mind 
the experiments conducted by this German, who was with the Union 
army near Moss Neck, twelve miles below Fredericksburg, where Gen- 
eral Jackson was in winter quarters in '63. 

My mother, then Mrs. Richard Corbin, of Moss Neck, was the hos- 
tess of General Jackson, and can remember Zeppelin's balloon sailing 
in sight, but not within range of the Confederate fire. The inventive 
genius became a pet hobby of the German government, and hundreds 
of thousands were spent in the effort to make the dirigible an invin- 
cible agent of terrorism. The American invention, the heavier-than- 
air machine, the aeroplane, became the relentless foe of the lighter- 
than-air Zeppelin. But the inventor, Langley, of the Smithsonian 
Institute, Washington, died of disappointment because our government 
did not give him financial aid enough. The Wrights and others, work- 
ing on the same principle, I am told by aeronauts, perfected this form 
of air car. 

A kindred case of congressional negligence was the failure to ap- 
propriate and develop the submarine, an American invention. This in- 
strument seems to be one of the determining factors in the world war. 
I am likewise informed that the Krupp gun was first offered to the 
American government. Surely, before critics throw stones at the 
present administration as responsible for our much heralded unpre- 
paredness, they ought to go back further and trace conditions to their 
source. Even in the War Between the States, Captain John Mercer 
Brooke invented the first iron-clad, which "unquestionably revolution- 
ized the naval warfare of the world," and received encouragement from 
the Confederacy before Ericsson did from Uncle Sam. Yesterday, fifty- 
five years ago, Brooke's boat met Ericsson's in Hampton Roads, but 
before that date Uncle Sam had been caught napping to his serious 
detriment. 
Richmond, March 10. 



LETTER FROM A Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY IN FRANCE 



Mr. Editor: It was owing to the lack of Chaplains' position avail- 
able for Episcopal ministers that I applied to the Y. M. C. A., as I 
have been already four times in France for brief visits, and received 
an appointment about two days later; but then was obliged to wait 
a month ere I could sail on the Rochambeau French Line from New 
York, on October 29, in company with twenty other secretaries, sev- 
eral groups of Red Cross workers, and a total of altruistic passengers, 
coming to aid France, of about three hundred. My work is to be with 
the French soldiers and at Chalons Sur Marne. Chalons is east of 
Paris and not far from Rheims and Epernay. I recall a very charming 
visit to this part of France five years ago, but since then the Hun has 
changed the face of nature in this region. 

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Bishop McCormick, of Michigan, was j.mong us, and the Rev. Mr. 
Taylor, of St. Louis, was acting as the Bishop's traveling companion. 
We had services on board and the Bishop celebrated and preached on 
All Saints' Day and on the following Sunday. I heard him again at 
Dr. Watson's Church, Trinity, the next Sunday, after we arrived in 
Paris. Bishop McCormick will superintend our Chaplains here in 
France, thus acting for the American Episcopate. The Rev. Mr. 
Taylor will succeed Dean Davis, of St. Louis, as Chaplain at Rouen. I 
stopped at over night en route to Paris hoping to see my neph- 
ew, a son of Bishop Kinsolving, of Brazil. He had left the School of 
Aviation there, but I have seen him here in Paris since. His brother 
is serving in the American Ambulance Corps. I talked with a soldier 
of that branch of our service recently, and his description of his hair- 
breadth escapes was thrilling. He was very modest in his description 
of his services, however, and this spirit seems to pervade the service. 
At different stations I saw a great number of Americans in khaki, and 
in Paris you meet them at every turn, in the "metro" subway, on the 
Champs Elysees and everywhere. The Canadians and Australians who 
wear a similar uniform, at least in color, are also very frequently met, 
and they are sociable like Americans. 

In the Canteen Service I have met a number of our Church wom- 
en, Miss Gilman, daughter of President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity; Miss Nelson, cousin of Dr. Thomas N. Page, and several New 
York ladies of our Church. As to the men, we have College Presidents, 
Y. M. C. A. Secretaries and others of similar standing. Countess 
Choiseux gave us promise of aid to the French troops with whom I am 
to labor as a Y. M. C. A. Secretary at Chalons. Baron de LaGrange 
and the Baroness who, like the Countess Choiseux, were on board the 
Rochambeau, are very lovely people of the old French stock. Here in 
Paris many of our party are detained until we can get our supplies be- 
fore we go out to Camp. 

Paris is not rendered mournful in appearance. Theaters are open, 
music is heard, men and women are very full of fun and badinage. 
The French wit and good nature are irrepressible in spite of war. 
Even the losses and the Russian collapse do not cast a pall of gloom 
over them. They seem very happy to have the United States taking 
up the cause of liberty with them, and they do all they can to help us 
while we are in Paris. The three centres there — 31 Avenue Montaigne, 
(2) the Hotel de Pavilion, and (3) University Union, 8 Rue de Riche- 
lieu — are thronged with our men. At the two first places mentioned 
music and refreshments are to be enjoyed at the Club rooms under the 
auspices of the Y. M. C. A. As a Frenchman said to me on the train, 
"You Americans are so very practical." They are alert and quick to 
see the methods of the Y M. C. A. 

There are many dangers to our young men more than submarines, 
or shells, or poisonous gasses. The Y. M. C. A. is affording amuse- 
ments and a social life, all of which are very salutary in giving occu- 
pation to the men in moments of leisure. 

I am very glad to be serving an organization of which soldiers 
and officers unite in saying most splendid things. The athletic sports, 

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cinema, the phonograph, papers, books, writing materials, and a dozen 
other things needed by the men, are brought to them by the Y. M. C. 
A., and they ail appreciate it. I am terribly eager to get to Chalons 
Sur Marne for my work there. Seven weeks at Fort Myer will have 
given me an introduction to the kind of work I am to do. After all 
the contact will be more immediate than a Chaplain's and I trust God 
may use me. I am happy to be across and I shall give my best ser- 
vices to our poilus at Chalons. 

American Expeditionary Force, France, November 15, 1917. 



NATIVE HOUSTONIAN WRITES FROM FRANCE 
Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving With the American Forces. 



Chalons-Sur-Marne, November 29, 1917. 
My dear "Monsieur L'Editeur": 

I am going to give your readers a few actual experiences and im- 
pressions I received in France. 

I got tired waiting for the U. S. Congress to create new chaplains 
in the army, being one of the several awaiting an opening. Recom- 
mended by five Bishops, half a dozen Senators, members of Congress, 
and several vestries, e. g., in St. Louis, in Richmond and in Tennessee, 
I simply presented these letters at the New York International Y. M. 
C. A. office; had five minutes personal interview with Dr. John R. 
Mott, and was assigned to work overseas with the Y. M. C. A. But I 
waited at Fort Myer, where I was an official chaplain to the students 
in training to become officers for over a month before I received orders 
to come to New York; ten days in New York before our delayed boat 
could sail; ten days on board the Rochambeau ere we arrived in Bor- 
deaux; ten days in Paris ere I got my permit and now I have to wait 
here before I can go to the front. But I have had my eyes and ears 
open, and will report some of the things I have seen and heard from 
Washington to Chalons-Sur-Marne. 

Fortunately my salary commenced the first of last month, so I am 
all right and getting more and more to like my job every day. As a 
French Y. M. C. A. secretary remarked today: this is the school of 
Patience, "L'Ecole de Patience." 

On the boat we had every day conferences of the twenty secreta- 
ries in our own group. We were all bored but it was a part of the pro- 
gram. We finally got to Bordeaux, having been transferred to a small 
cruiser at the mouth of the Garonne. Getting off the little steamer, 
of which the cabin below with its stairs reminded me of Dante's de- 
scription of "L'Enfer," where all the bad angels were crowded together, 
we found the hotels of Bordeaux as full as that tight little boat. I 
was assigned to a place in a room occupied by two whites and one mu- 
latto. I looked in, observed conditions (one white man was in bed with 
and beside that coon) and I cried in good nature: "It is a mistake! 
Wrong number." I descended, sought the land-lady and secured a 
room above, once used as a parlor. 

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Next morning Rev. Mr. Patrick, no Saint nor related to the Saint, 
but a good, sound American clergyman, met us on the 11 o'clock tram 
to take us to Paris. He had blanks for us to fill out — I've been filling 
blanks for two months — and before I began I told him I wanted to stop 
at Tours, where my nephew, Charlie (son of the Bishop of Brazil), 
was when I last heard of him. He demurred a little, saying there was 
a "Conference" next morning. I exclaimed: "We have been confer- 
enced to death already." I got his consent to leave the train at Tours. 
However, Charlie had left the Aviation School and I missed him at 
Tours. I did see him in a most unexpected place and manner a week 
later. Coming to breakfast one morning in a big hotel dining room, 
I seated myself by accident at a small table opposite him. I had 
a letter from his brother this morning. Charlie is in the Aviation Ser- 
vice, a Pilot Aviator; Arthur is in the Ambulance Service; and I am 
with the Camp Service of the Y. M. C. A., with French soldiers. My 
permanent address is 31 Avenue Montaigne, Paris." Please, all my 
friends, send me a card, a letter, any news, the paper containing this 
letter when published, or any other paper. 

Here on Avenue Montaigne, and other points in the city, the Y. 
M. C. A. has musical or other entertainments for the boys several 
times a week. The service at 31 Ave. Montaigne conducted by charm- 
ing American girls is a first rate affair. 

I visited a French Countess, born an American, whom I met on 
board, and I was invited to call on a Baron who lives in Paris. I was 
also one day at our embassy, but missed Mr. Sharp, our minister. I 
met with a young secretary of his, a very nice boy, named Rowley. I 
also heard Bishop McCormick, who was on board the Rochambeau, 
preach at Trinity Church one Sunday. We have Bishop Israel, of Erie, 
also in France. I am constantly meeting Episcopalians in the Y. M. 
C. A. work and many clergy are among them. 

This is my fifth visit to Europe, but none has exceeded it in in- 
terest. The myriads of men in khaki in Paris, Canadians, British, Aus- 
tralians, Americans, French and Belgians in light and dark blue, in 
every subway, on all the streets, women in mourning, thousands praying 
in the churches, yet thousands also at the music halls and theaters — 
it is all wonderful, a mixture of joy and sorrow, sunlight and shadow, 
of life and death, that will never leave me. 

Are American soldiers coming in large numbers? I answer al- 
ways with jubilation: "Yes, a million or two more!" 

Here at Chalons on the Marne, not far from the great battlefield 
of "The Marne," the children on the street greet you in the evening, 
"Good morning," and in the morning "Good evening." One lass asked 
an American how to say: "Ef luf you" in French. He told her how. 
Here at Chalons the cellars are ready to occupy in case of an air raid, 
and the windows are all shaded. Little light is used. All precautions 
are taken against night attacks by enemy airplanes. 

I am going closer to the front tomorrow where the shells are heard 
whistling often. We are within hearing of the French guns here. I 
heard and read next day in papers arrived from Paris of the attack 
which was repulsed. But I have had no fear. 

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I must tell you I've met a charming French family, the Perands. 
M. Perand is a skin and leather merchant. He showed me a place con- 
structed to escape when the Germans came to Chalons, with beds and 
everything prepared for a seige. He has several automobiles, a pretty 
lot of boys and girls, and a very interesting home. I wish I could know 
more of these delightful French folks. They are most kind and socia- 
ble. 

At the camp, 15 miles away, where I go tomorrow with cot, trunk, 
valises, a mattress and blankets and everything else, M. Perand said 
he would come to visit me and bring me back for a visit to their home. 
This would break the monotony, so I hope I can come with him. I am 
to stay three months at Sorame Suippe, pronounced "Some Sweep," be- 
fore I have a holiday. Of this I will write again. 



A LETTER FROM THE FRONT 
Experiences of a Minister in Y. M. C. A. Work in France. 

(Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, an Episcopal minister, and a con- 
nection by marriage of the editor of the Herald, is actively engaged 
in religious work in co-operation with the Y. M. C. A., with his head- 
quarters near Chalons, France. Extracts from a recent letter from 
him will be of interest to readers of the Herald.) 
Editor of the Religious Herald: 

Since I left Fort Myer, where I was serving as unofficial chap- 
lain to the soldiers in training for officer's commissions, my course has 
reminded me of that pursued by a gyroscope. The peculiarity in this 
stabilizing instrument's progress as witnessed once by me, was its ten- 
dency to go to a certain point, then pause and remain in equilibrium, 
or as we say, "in statu quo," then to retrace its course, or else go on- 
ward along the prescribed path. In New York I spent ten days wait- 
ing for the Rochambeau to sail; in Paris I spent twelve days waiting 
for permit to move to Chalons; at Chalons it seems I am to be a week 
or more balancing on a wire, as it were, until I receive further orders 
to progress. 

But as a tourist of old, I am keenly alert to my opportunities and 
privileges as a gentleman of leisure. In New York, of course, I was 
at home, since I have lived there. On the steamer I was as busy as 
most people of the passenger list becoming acquainted with the twen- 
ty-one Y. M. C. A. men, the Red Cross groups and manifold altruistic 
aggregations on board. I made a speech, in both French and English 
thanking the captain for a safe and secure crossing and next day we 
were transhipped to a little river boat at the mouth of the Gironde (as 
the Garonne is called below Bordeaux) and we all had a cramped and 
most dismal experience in the eight hour passage on this boat without 
food to the Bordeaux Wharf. We arrived at 10:30, found it hard to get 
rooms for the night, and, before I went to sleep, I was about ready to 
withdraw my resolutions of thanks in French and English and to say 
something else in plain American. 

I left Bordeaux on Friday, having arrived the night before, spent 
the night at Tours, where I enjoyed immensely the magnificent his- 

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toric Cathedral, came on to Paris on Saturday, reaching the Hotel Du 
Pavilion on Saturday night. All rooms were full. I secured a place to 
sleep on a cot in the soldiers' dormitory for two francs, about 35c. It 
wasn't worth 15 cents. Cold as Christmas, filled with cursing and 
objectionable stories, continuing until 2 a. m., it was an apartment 
memorable for its discomfort. Next day I got a room. I must not 
omit that on that, as on all Saturday nights, there was an entertain- 
ment, singing, dancing and other vaudeville stunts. One particular 
dance was explained by Dr. Benson (President of Vermont University) 
in charge of the Paris Department of Y. M. C. A. work, and, therefore, 
of the pavilion performances. When he announced the next day that 
sometimes the companies invited to entertain "put one over on the 
Y. M. C. A.," I thought this special dance deserved his allusion. Some- 
body "put one over" that night At the moment I wondered if this was 
Paris Y M. C. A. or what. Other entertainments were the stories told 
one night by the survivors of the "Alcedo," followed by a dance. Two 
black negro boys who could speak French (born in Louisiana) were the 
prima donnas of both occasions. 

At the University Union I registered and looked for college men 
I knew. I often went there to write during my weeks in Paris. I heard 
there a remarkably well rendered performance of the Merchant of 
Venice in French and heard two beautiful operas of Gluck and of 
Auber. I circled the city viewing Notre Dame, the Queen of Beauty, 
the Madeleine, of which the Second Baptist church of Richmond re- 
minds us, and other famous buildings. I also enjoyed the Saturday 
in Tours, the paintings have been removed for the period of the war, 
and at the Luxemburg, the gallery of modern contemporary art. Rodin's 
death occurred the day after I saw some of his work there. Lloyd 
George made his great Parisian speech on unity that aroused wrath at 
home, but promoted his power, the first week I was in Paris. 

The victories around Cambrai have been most since I left Paris to 
come to Chalons. The Italian defeats were being aggravated while we 
were crossing the Atlantic. The Russian collapse is still on. 

I enjoyed the journey from Paris hither. I passed very near the 
scene of the great battle of the Marne. I talked with majors and other 
high officers of the French army. They are remarkably reticent, but 
brave, sanguine, hopeful and undaunted. We have near here thirty or 
more Y. M. C. A. centers in most of which will be both a French sec- 
retary and an American. I am to be located about fifteen miles or so 
out of Chalons and among five or ten thousand French soldiers. I 
have talked very little else but French now for two weeks or so and 
begin to feel better acquainted with the language. The French people 
tell me they understand me perfectly, but I have trouble hearing them 
for, of course, they speak rapidly. 

I had a bit of dentistry to be performed today. I had a lady den- 
tist, highly recommended and found her very proficient and remark- 
ably rapid in her execution. So the French, even without suffrage, are 
not behind in feminine progress. 

I have noted thousands worshiping in the Cathedrals and churches. 
Baron La Grange told us that the personnel of the French clergy was 

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greatly elevated by the separation of the Church and State. I am sure 
this will be easily believed by your readers. 

And now may I mention one or two amusing incidents ? On board 
our ship, one fellow in the party was continually correcting the French 
accent of all of us. A few days after we arrived in Paris I met a 
French poilu who had been on board. He said: "Have you seen that 
poor fellow? He is having a troubled time in Paris, can't speak a 
word and gets lost every time he goes out alone." I smiled reflectively. 
The children on the streets of Chalons are very polite. At 8 
o'clock in the morning, when they are on the way to school, to an 
American they cry, "Good night." In the evening after supper if 
you see them out they are apt to say "Good morning." 

I looked for Charles Kinsolving, my aviator nephew, at Tours and 
found he had left long before my arrival. I came down to breakfast 
at the Pavilion in Paris, selected a table a fellow seated at it and was 
amazed to be greeted with, "Hello, Uncle Wythe." It was Charlie. A 
day or two ago here in Chalon, on the streets a khaki clad youth said, 
"Howdy." In short time we found we were both from Richmond. He 
knew my brother-in-law (who is in law, in fact, being an attorney) 
and was himself a young Richmond practitioner named Bocock. 

The other evening while I was talking French to a soldier here in 
the salon of the hotel, we heard a great many whistles blowing. He 
said, "The Boches, perhaps an air raid." As it happened it was a false 
alarm. But every night the window curtains are drawn. There is no 
light to be seen. It looks like the decks of the Rochambeau when all 
our port holes were screened. The plague of darkness is over all this 
part of France. French airplanes fly over any day. Cellars are pro- 
vided for security in a raid. 

I first stayed at a hotel named Haute Mere Dieu, meaning The High 
Mother of God. The first word, Haute, was the keynote. I left for a 
less high place to stay. Elegant snails and oysters are sold here. 
The snails are better than the Philadelphia ones, of which a New 
Yorker said: "Philadelphians do not eat them because they cannot 
overtake them." 

I have been eating snails to cultivate patience and tame down my 
natural proclivity to rapid movement. This town was once occupied by 
the Germans. If that happened again, perhaps I would be sorry I had 
eaten any snails. 

Whenever I see a long lost American lad struggling with French 
and eager to get some help, I think of "Box and Cox," one embracing 
the other, crying, "Have you a mole on your right arm?" "No." 
"Why, you are indeed my long lost brother." 

Chalons is a center for auto trucks. There is a canteen of the 
Red Cross at the station. I see many Americans almost daily. Most 
of them have a sort of "Box and Cox" look in the eyes as though they 
would like to fall on somebody's neck who could talk English and tell 
any home news. 

Well, if you can print this screed, perhaps later I can send some- 
thing better. When we win this war and come home again, there will 
be much to tell. 

Chalons, Franqe, — X7 — 



WITH AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE 



Rev. Mr. Kinsolving Writes Interestingly from the Seat of War. 



On Train to a Port of France, January, 18, 1918. 
Editor Record- Advertiser: 

I received yesterday two statements from Halifax friends that 
they had read my letters in the columns of your paper, and asking me 
to write again. So after nearly three months of life with the colors, 
both French and American, I feel like again recording more mature 
impressions of things seen in France. 

I served in a French Foyer du Soldat for a while, ate horse meat 
and potato "rata," a kind of soup; and slept cold, if I slept at all, under 
five blankets. Like the healed invalid in the Bible I always had to 
carry my bed, and mattress and blankets. 

I've traveled on ocean-steamers, river boats, trains, "trams," elec- 
tric busses, the underground; what is known as the cremailliere — a ca- 
ble car drawn up the mountain; in a side car of a motorcycle; in mo- 
tor trucks, autos, taxis, wagons, carriages and everything except an 
aeroplane and a submarine. My nephew Charlie, however, is a pilot 
aviator and not long ago made a raid with twenty-four other machines 
160 miles over Germany. His brother, Arthur, drives a big ambulance 
car and is well spoken of by all. 

I spent Sunday evening at the American University Union, 8 Rue 
de Richelieu, and heard a most artistic musical recital and saw several 
University of Virginia men; among them Lewis Crenshaw who is in 
charge of our U. of Va. rooms at the Union. I heard of Jack Brown, 
son of Bishop Brown, of Virginia; of young Williams, son of John 
Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; of Joseph Wood ,of Farmington, near 
the U. of Va., with whom I dined at Farmington a short time before he 
sailed, and many other Virginia boys. 

I had spent some weeks out at two points, Rimancourt and Lan- 
gres, where I felt I was doing real service and had come in to get well 
of La Grippe. I am now en route to a coast town for like service with 
the Y. M. C. A. 

I sold $1,500 worth of American tobacco at one point a few weeks 
ago, gave out thousands of sheets of letter paper and envelopes, like 
what I am writing on now, and fitted up a comfortable hall in a town 
where we had two thousand men and I was the only secretary. 

Christmas we had a big entertainment. I led 1,200 men and 
French children in the carols of which we distributed copies to all, 
preached in English and French, and helped to give out a thousand 
presents from the Y. M. C. A. 

In the next post to which I was assigned I sold chocolate, tobacco, 
etc., to the sum of one thousand francs. I played the piano and sang 
every night until I was put to bed by La Grippe. The snow was over 
a foot deep. I was obliged to walk a mile or two, several times a day, 
to my barrack. The water on the floor was an inch deep and the 
French stoves were a joke. The main object of a French stove is to 

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save fuel and look as though it were actually emitting heat. Thank 
heaven I do not return to this place. 

Lieutenant Harrison, of the University of Virginia, was my friend 
at the first point. I did not see any Virginia boys at the second. I may 
see more where I am going. I certainly hope so. 

One learns a great many things here in a short time. Four visits 
before the war have not equalled in length of time one during the war. 
Our Y. M. C. A. is doing a great work where our department heads are 
efficient. I've had experience both sorts. To get a warm hall for the 
men in which they can associate, read, write, and talk, sing, play 
games, and attend religious services, concerts, lectures, etc., is a fine 
piece of benefaction. I was happy when I was personally providing 
for two thousand. 

Deficiency in mail facilities has been my chief deprivation. I 
went nearly three months without a word from my wife, and finally 
got all her letters in a pack after they had been held at one place a 
matter of several weeks! Meantime I cabled, and next day, getting 
the letters, had to cable again to keep from giving unnecessary alarm. 
Perhaps at a coast town this will be better. I have not got the Christ- 
mas box she sent me yet; but have received cards from Aunt Mary 
Green, Mrs. Garland Faulkner, and Mrs. Hankins, many Richmond 
people, and Baltimore and New York friends. I shall probably soon 
meet some of our boys from Virginia and may be from Houston. 
Bishop Brent. Bishop McCormick and Bishop Gwynne of Khartum, the 
first working with the Y. M. C. A., the second in charge of Episcopal 
chaplains, the third in charge of British chaplains. I've seen often Miss 
Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, who is at the Hotel 
du Pavilion, Paris, and one of my very valued friends I've met many 
who knew the Bishops of Brazil and Texas. The first American I 
met at Bordeaux knew Brother Lucien. This was the first day after 
I landed. I've met the boys from Montana, California, Iowa, Georgia, 
Maryland, New York and almost all the States of the Union. 

I did not mention the big battle I was near, north of Chalons. It 
sounded like twenty-five thunder storms. We were ordered 
to get ready to get in the refuge trenches from the bombard- 
ment. I saw Boche aeroplanes cleared by the French shells bursting 
almost over our heads. I could never even before the battle go out 
without a gas mask strapped upon me and ready for immediate 
use. I was with several thousand French and one American; no 
woman, no stores and no good drinking water in twenty miles! It 
was in the devastated region — East of Rheims — in the closest Y. M. 
C. A. building of all to the Front. 

I ate snails in Paris before I went there and I remarked I was 
sorry if "a snail's pace" for me was to be the result in getting out of 
there! I ate horse, however, there and perhaps it was a race horse. If so 
I needed all his alacrity. Here was where I walked five miles to a 
Presbyterian service and was called on to make an extempore prayer 
in French, which I did. I told a Frenchman I knew the Lord knew what 
I meant and asked him if he also knew ? He gave a polite French af- 
firmative reply. 

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Will you send me a copy of this and my other letter to "12 Rue 
d'Aguesseau, Paris, care of Y. M. C. A." as I want to see if you well 
decipher my heiroglyphics ? 

You may see me in Halifax on my return, as I love the verdant 
slopes and beauteous ravines of that dear region. Thanks to my friends 
for their kind letters. I shall be delighted to get more, now and then. 
I will return to Virginia in a few months, I hope. I am now in 
Brittany, historic, quaint, lovely, full of charm. I believe it will 
be mild and we will have an early spring. 

With love to friends. 



FOUR MONTHS IN FIGHTING-FRANCE 



Notes of a Y. M. C. A. Secretary Returned From France 

Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, M. A., B. D. 

Probably the most profound conviction borne in upon my mind and 
riveted there by a residence of four months in France is that this 
world-war will last three years longer. I was speaking with Bishop 
Gwynne, Chaplain Superior to all the British Forces in Europe, who 
had sat at table the day before with Generals Haig, Robertson and 
Pershing, in a three hours conversation on the train from Langres to 
Paris, not more than three weeks or so before I left France. His tes- 
timony as to the British Generals' opinions of our American officers 
and men was the handsomest tribute to American manhood to which 
I have ever been privileged to listen. "We British expected the Amer- 
icans to be rather impetuous and over-hasty in their methods, and we 
have been amazed to find them the most humble and modest of men, 
sitting docilely at the feet of French and British leaders, keen and 
eager to learn the methods of modern warfare, resolute, unflagging 
and steadfast in their zeal to learn and know and put into effect the 
most effective plan by which our common foe may be exhausted and 
finally and convincingly defeated." 

This enconium of the highest authority among the British chap- 
lains repeating the sentiment of the superior generals of the British 
army is assuredly deserving of a national hearing in America. Com- 
pared and contrasted with it let us witness the testimony of the 
French poilu, whose contact with the American soldier has elicited 
from him a hopeful and sanguine admiration and respect. At St. 
Nazaire, at the extreme tip of the Western French coast, I had many 
interviews with Frenchmen who for seven or eight months past have 
observed the construction of great railroads, harbor facilities and other 
American enterprises with deepest interest and keenest appreciation. 
"Oh, you Americans are so practical," have not one, but hundreds of 
these Frenchmen said to me. "We are so glad you are with us, fighting 
our common foe. France was in great need of the young and vigor- 
ous American nation. Thank God, you have come!" 

When I would humbly suggest that from my observation of the 
tanned and bronzed soldier in the dugout on the French front; men 
who slept eight in a dugout eight feet square and six feet deep; men 

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who had eaten horse flesh, dried and stale; drunk the ration of sour 
wine, and eaten the coarse black bread, and the potato rata; men of 
small statue, but of gigantic soul — when I would humbly suggest that 
could the American fibre stand such severe and austere asperities of 
life, there could be no doubt as to the outcome of the conflict, the little 
Frenchman's hand would go up ; his eye would flash with keen zest and 
a confident spark of enthusiasm, as he said: 

"They will be as great soldiers as the French; we have no fear of 
their valor being less than that of the French poilu, who has fought 
three and one half years." 

With these testimonials of the impressions made by the American 
army upon the British and the French, let me remind you simply that 
they are expressions of hope and not expressions of achievement. 
When I asserted that the war would last for three years it was with 
a full realization of the valid and splendid character of soldiers whom 
we have put already in France, but it was likewise with a knowledge 
of the well-nigh invincible and invulnerable character of the enemy 
against whom are aligned the most majestic and the most compelling 
agencies of civilization and power. 

Germany's intrenchment in Northern France; her three lines of 
intrenchment, in fact, cannot be penetrated by big guns, nor by over- 
whelming forces. Her one-hundred and ninety-five divisions north of 
France are a perpetual menace even now to the security and integrity 
of uninvaded central and southern France. When I say that the four 
or five million Americans must be sent to France before the end comes, 
you will recognize that I speak not for myself, but as voicing the 
sentiments of Great Britain and France alike in their full recognition 
of the almost unthinkable task that yet remains to be performed by 
the Allied armies. 

Thirdly, we shall find it very difficult to provide food and trans- 
portation for this vast army in France. Therefore our increase in 
ships, ever ships, and more ships, is the imperative corrollary of what 
has just been said. Let us visualize here the mighty achievement of 
the British navy for three years past. Without it, America would 
have been invaded, and already Teutonic ideas of Kultur and Teutonic 
claims for superman would have been thrust, along with their German 
bayonets, down the throats of Americans along our coasts. Let us 
never forget that unprepared America was saved from the degradation 
of her defenceless condition almost uniquely and solely by the mighty 
power of the British navy upon the high seas. 

Another most potent consideration with me just now is the vital 
need of airplanes to go over and behind that invulnerable line above 
described and to destroy not only railroad stations and munition plants 
but to destroy that more vital and destructive principle — the solid and 
unbroken security which the German has always maintained back of 
his apparently invincible battle line. 

In an interview with Mrs. Davidson, wife of the archbishop of Can- 
terbury, in Lambeth Palace two weeks ago, she informed me that the 
Archbishop's opposition to the use of aeroplanes was not extended to 
their use in bombing munition factories or any military agencies or in- 

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struments, but that he had pleaded for an absence of the spirit of re- 
taliation and reprisal, and had besought the British people not to stoop 
to the wilful desire for the blood of babes and women, blown into atoms 
by the explosions of bombs dropped from the clouds. 

Bishop Ryle, the dean of Westminster Abbey, declared he was 
convinced that a vast host of American aeroplanes would be needed to 
finish the war. Cannon James of Worcester, who preached that after- 
noon in the Abbey spoke most splendidly of the morale and the moral- 
ity of the British army, he having served as .chaplain to multitudes of 
those men from the beginning of the war. Let me here declare, as one 
of my deepest sentiments, my feeling of the imperative importance of 
a clear British-American understanding; of the recognition of Amer- 
ica that she has owed her life of late to the British naval power; and 
to the no less important recognition of Great Britain that she will owe 
her future life almost entirely to our long-deferred American inter- 
vention in this greatest war of the ages. 

Perhaps I should explain here just what opportunities for personal 
observation of the French, the British, and the American forces I 
have had. Briefly, one month's service near the French front; three 
months' service in mobilization camps of the American forces, the last 
month having been spent at a port of entry, where American trans- 
ports empty their burden of men and commodities, destined to be- 
come the means of Germany's defeat. 

One cannot visit the French front and fail to honor and respect 
the valor of France's soldiers. I have seen those men who have been 
in the trenches since 1914, unbroken in spirit, unf earful in nerve; con- 
fident and hopeful of victory, and of unconquerable determination to 
win. The book "Le Feu" of Henri Babursc, has not an exaggerated 
line upon their sufferings and hardships. But the determination of 
these men to win is not as fixed as at the beginning of the war, but a 
thousand-fold more fixed. When you ask a poilu on permission: 

"How long have you been in service?" 

He will say: 

"Nearly four years already; maybe four years still to come! How 
many men have the Americans got in France?" 

Then with a smile: 

"Are they in Paris or are they in the trenches ? We need several 
millions of them. We lost more than half of ours." 

The French like the Americans. Fraternity and equality belong 
to both of us. We'll fight for the liberty of the human race together, 
and God will win the victory as he did on the Marne, and as he did at 
Verdun. 

Do yon think, my friends, the Frenchman is irreligious or infidel. 
There was never a more serious error. I attended ten Paris churches; 
perhaps a score of churches all over France, and on a Sunday every 
church would be packed to the limit of its four walls. And soldiers and 
widows in weeds; young children and old men, would mingle in one vast 
concourse in praise to God for saving France from the Boche, and 
prayer to Him to drive the enemy back across the Rhine, 

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Oh, the generosity of that fine little Town Major, at Rimaucourt, 
who when I sought to leave a cold and uncomfortable room without a 
door upon the hinges and with a tiny ornamental stove which could 
not have heated a New York apartment room, aided me in a morning's 
effort, walking miles through deep snow to discover some other place 
where I might be billeted. His courtesy was unfailing; his kindly 
humor, characteristic of his Gallic race; he was a very prince of gen- 
teel good manners; he never stopped until I was comfortably located 
after three or four hours of his personal efforts, in a good room, with 
an excellent stove and with a plentiful supply of that rare commodity 
— the necessary fuel. 

I obtained from him three separate barracks, not one of them 
suited to our purposes for the Y. M. C. A., and finally an old cinema- 
hall, which became a most comfortable place for our men to come and 
find warmth, society and the canteen, and the religious service, and 
music, and the other activities of the association. But never anything 
but kindness and knightly service were elicited from my little Town 
Major at Rimaucourt, even though it must have taxed his patience to 
the limit to respond to my innumerable calls for assistance. 

At Langres the same shortage of fuel, the same difficulties in 
obtaining any fire for myself, for the highest officers of our army, 
and even more notably for the private American soldier. I walked to 
the caserne where I served the canteen, covering the two miles four 
times daily, through snow a foot and a half deep ; stood upon the base- 
ment floor in an inch of water, selling American tobacco, and choco- 
lates, and shoe polish, etc., over the counter. Sitting at the piano for 
four hours and shouting with a hundred other voices: 

'Uncle Sammy, he's got the infantry." "We'll walk right in and 
win this war — and then come home again." "Way Down Upon the 
Sewanee River." "My Old Kentucky Home." "In the Cross of Christ 
I Glory." "My Country 'Tis of Thee." "America, I Love You." Or 
any of the inspiring melodies which brought tears sometimes to our 
eyes and tender emotions into our breasts that would cause the spon- 
taneous hug of one fellow for another, as he said: 

"Ah, Ole Kentuck — sing that once more for me, or can't you sing 
"Carry Me Back to Old Virginie?" 

These fellows were princes. God bless every one of them. The 
American private is greater than any king upon his throne. He has the 
heart of a hero; the soul of chivalry; the quick, alert mind of the Attic 
Greek and the unfailing humor of a Mark Twain. 



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Y. M. C. A. DINNER SPEAKER 



Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, Young Men's Christian Association 
worker just returned from Franct.. who will be the principal speaker 
at the Y. M. C. A. members' dinner at the Central Building at 6:30 
o'clock tonight, predicted yesterday that there would be no German 
offensive this spring. 

"German man power is a tremendous element just now," said the 
Southern minister. "Germany's man power is on the decrease; she is 
economizing. She has nothing to gain and everything to lose on an 
offensive in the west. Rather an Italian campaign is a possibility. 

"Germany, by intrigue, undermined the whole fabric of Russian 
and Italian morale. She prefers to face the chaotic Russian and the 
effete Italian than the indomitable poilu and the bulldog Englishman 
who will fight as long as there is blood in their bodies." 



M. C. A. WORKER RECENTLY RETURNED FROM FRANCE- 
GERMAN ENTRANCE INTO RUSSIA IS IMPORTANT 
FACTOR IN WAR NOW 



"The Western front is not the important factor in the war at 
present, however. That factor is the German entrance into Russia, 
opening the way to the Black Sea so that she has an open path for 
the transport of grain and other supplies from Eastern Russia. I can- 
not understand why President Wilson and the powers at Washington 
are unwilling to allow Japan to go in to guard the stores at Vladivo- 
stok but they are undoubtedly in close touch with the situation and 
have some reason for their hesitation. Should Germany try to force 
the Russians into her army to fight against the Allies it seems to 
me that Japan must be sent in to oppose them. 

German Failures and Gains 

"The war situation at present is this. The submarine campaign 
has been but 50 per cent efficient. The German navy has been bottled 
up since the beginning of the war save on one occasion when it came 
out and was badly beaten by the British. On land, the Germans have 
been out-fought and out-generaled by Joffre and Haig. They were 
held at the Marne, foiled and fooled at Verdun and defeated at Ypre 
and Cambrai. The Zeppelin campaign has been an absolute failure 
save as it has resulted in the killing of women and children, and the 
success of the German military aeroplane has been nothing. German 
credit is an inflated balloon, which would collapse at the first prick, and 
has only been kept afloat by the representation to the German public 
of campaigns of intrigue in Russia and Italy as military victories. 

"On the other hand, Germany has gained Belgium, Servia, Poland, 
Roumania and part of France and Russia and has established a con- 
siderable control over the Balkan States. To counterbalance this she 
has lost every colony she possessed. 

"She had 10,000,000 men at the beginning of the war and she can 
probably muster 7,000,000 today and she has gained possession of a 
large amount of food and other supplies by her entry into Russia, 

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"The German emperor said that he would make the name German 
more feared than that of Attila. If crucifying men and women, if 
killing of babes, if the destruction of 400 churches, if the razing of 
villages without leaving one house out of 1,500, if the inoculation of a 
nation with disease germs, as the Serbians were inoculated, if the stab- 
bing of ships in the morning twilight, if the bombing of hospitals, if 
the decorating of assassins, if the sinking of the Lusitania, if the plot- 
ting to bring Japan in against us through Mexico, if these are some of 
the German emperor's four-flushes, then Atilla would have been a poor 
poker player against him. 

"We don't need to sing a national hymn of hate in America and 
we don't need to compose any catalogue of reasons why we should 
fight Germany, for Germany herself has written down in blood the 
reasons why she must be crushed. Aside from our debt to Great Brit- 
ain and France for their protection of our coast from invasion during 
the past three years, there is every reason why we should stand with 
the Allies as a mighty unified force to repel the greatest aggregation 
of evil that has ever been brought together on this earth. 

"We shall win, as surely as there is a sun in the sky, as surely 
as there was a resurrection after Gethsemane and the cross and as 
surely as the God of men and angels reigns over men and affairs." 

Dr. Kinsolving, who is to be the speaker at the membership dinner 
at Y. M. C. A. tonight, has just returned from five months spent in 
Y. M. C. A. work at the front. At one time, while serving with a 
French division, he was for five hours under shell fire. Later he was 
in a town on the coast where he acted as interpreter for the French 
and the large number of negro workmen who were stationed there. 
He also acted as interpreter for the German prisoners. Of these, he 
says, the younger men are anxiuos for the war to stop at any price, 
but the older men are loyal to the Kaiser. The proportion is about 10 
to one of the younger to older men among the prisoners taken and Dr. 
Kinsolving said that he had heard from eye-witnesses of German gun- 
ners found chained to their guns to keep them in the battle. 

Dr. Kinsolving was also at the training camps of the American 
forces and will tell tonight of the scenes in the camp and of the won- 
derful organization which is being built up to supply the American 
soldiers with food and other necessary material. 

—ROCHESTER TIMES-UNION, March 22, 1918. 



A NEW INTERNATIONALISM 



To the Editor of The Living Church: 

In the midst of such a great international paroxysm as that in 
which humanity finds itself, it is most interesting and profitable to 
study the past development of the human race and find in it a prom- 
ise of better things for the future. 

The world has seen three great efforts, or experiments, in Inter- 
nationalism. First, came Political Monarchism. The prophet Daniel 
appreciated the failure of these efforts. Second came Ecclestiastical 
Monarchism built on the plans of the political. Martin Luther and 

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others appreciated its defects. Third, after the fall of Ecclesiastical 
Monarchism, and on its ruins, was erected Socialism by Marx, follow- 
ing the earlier, cruder efforts of Owen, Fourrier, Proudhon, LaSalle, 
etc. Internationalism was now an economic and industrial organiza- 
tion. In Germany, allied with Social Democracy, so-called, it played 
unwittingly into the hands of old-fashioned Political Monarchism 
(which really, of course, belongs to Daniel's age, not ours!). Bakounin 
muddled things in the "International" programme by mingling anarchy 
with the Socialism of Marx. There is yet a fourth and higher effort 
which must be made in "Internationalism." The time is ripening for 
it daily. It is an effort at "Christian Catholicism." Now, no one can 
possibly confuse this with experiment number two, above, i. e., Ro- 
man Catholicism. That was monarchism and this shall be democracy. 
That was based on centralized power. This shall be based on local 
autonomy and federation. That belonged to the past. This has the 
zeit-geist of our century. 

Politics, aping ecclesiasticism and mere materialistic industrial- 
ism, will never unify human society. But "Christian Catholicism," as 
democratic as the early Christian Church which chose the "seven men 
of good report" and set them before the apostles; which spoke in the 
Council of Jerusalem: "It seemed good to the apostles and elders 
and the whole Church;" guided by successors of the apostles, but ex- 
pressing the voice of the "people of God" ("led by the Spirit of God," 
and therefore "the Sons of God") ; ought to be more successful in es- 
tablishing the Kingdom of the Prince of Peace on earth than any one 
of the three experiments in Internationalism already tried. 

Richmond, Va., May 29, 1917. 



GOD, THE INVISIBLE KING 



Editor The News Leader: 

If H. G. Wells were not widely read and more widely advertised 
it would be unwise to call any special attention to his "God, the Invis- 
ible King." 

The first third of the book is likely to do harm. It is full of glar- 
ing errors, owing to lack of knowledge both of history and of the New 
Testament teaching. This is not surprising when you consider that 
Mr. Wells is a reader of Atheism and speculation, which he quotes 
later at length, rather than of history and the New Testament. 

His pet aversion to the doctrine of the Trinity is owing primarily 
to his ignorance of its presence in not one questioned text of St. John, 
as says Mr. Wells, but throughout, for example, the fourteenth, fif- 
teenth and sixteenth chapters. 

As far back as Genesis i. the spirit of God cried in Psalm li.: "Take 
not Thy Holy Spirit from me." So when Mr. Wells speaks of a 
"Creator God" and the invention of a Holy Spirit as something pro- 
ceeding from Him," linking this "invention" (page 14) to the "sugges- 
tive influence of the Egyptian Trinity then worshipped at Serapeum," 
he is manifestly thousands of years in error as to the time of such an 
"invention." 

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When he complains of the "identification of the man Jesus with 
the theological Christ," if he means at the time of Nicea, he is 300 
years off. Witness Colossians I and II, the Book of Acts, which Harnak 
calls the authenticated work of St. Luke, etc. 

Then, including the "elaborate doctrine of the Trinity" along with 
"teaching about the virginity of Mary and Joseph." Mr. Wells says: 
"It was left for a little red-haired, busy, wire-pulling Athanasius to 
find out exactly what their Master was driving at three centuries after 
their Master was dead?" 

Or perhaps to H. G. Wells twenty centuries after! But universal 
consent has nothing to do with what truth is! 

Carlyle is probably wiser than Wells. "Had Arianism triumphed 
Christianity would have perished from the earth," said the Scotch sage. 

Mr. Wells' worries about God not being "Providence" would not 
have arisen at all if he had carefully studied the temptation of our 
Lord to cast Himself from the temple pinnacle. 

We could go on and show dozens of glaring inaccuracies, brilliant 
confusions of thought, owing to sheer ignorance of the subject in hand. 
Yet we question if hundreds of readers will detect these marks. Will 
they not be rather attracted by the bold independence of attitude, the 
calm self-reliance of the writer? 

The very whisperings of a new religion which Mr. Wells claims 
to voice, which he says are to be noted in Islam, in Buddhism, etc., are 
they not the searchings of heart produced and caused by the arrival 
of the "reasonable, religious and holy hope" of Christianity ? May we 
not hope Mr. Wells may have the experience of R. J. Campbell and 
move onward to clear and definite faith? 
Richmond, Va., June 21, 1917. 



UNITED AFTER THE WAR 

Mr. Editor: More than once in the columns of the Church press 
has the undersigned advanced a new-old theory of the trend of events 
in the reorganization of society. But one feels strongly re-enforced in 
a position when he finds a great name like the late Bishop Wescott's 
(of Durham) standing for similar ideals and opinions. 

Bishop Boutflower's article in the "Constructive Quarterly" for 
June shows that Bishop Westcott believed in the abolition of the usual 
spirit of nationalism that is self-assertive, selfish and mean. This is 
what I advocated some months ago in my letter on "The Unities." 
Thus, on page 228 of the Christian Quarterly and on the following 
page, B. Wescott: "The Church is indeed finally the realization of 
the brotherhood of man, and it is the abiding pledge of that truth in 
the face of present separations and rivalries of nations." The whole 
article is illuminating. 

Now, in a recent letter, May 29th, I advocated Christian Cathol- 
icism as a fourth experiment in international unification. 

Political monarchy, then ecclesiastical monarchy (Roman), and, 
finally, economic determinism of pure Marxian socialism have failed in 
history. Let us strive for a new internationalism based upon the two 

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great unities: unity of all men and women in one holy relationship of 
children of God first; only secondarily members of nations. Only sec- 
ondarily also are they members of denominations. The one Holy 
Catholic or Universal Church of Christ is assuredly superior to mere 
denominations or fragmental portions of Christianity. 

I cannot see how after this struggle in Europe racial lines, dis- 
crimination between Orient- Indian, black-American, Japanese or white- 
American can longer exist. Nor can I see how Roman Catholic, Greek 
Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Wesleyan or Presbyterian can any longer 
believe that the Christian hope of one is one whit better loved or more 
secure than that of the others. 

In the (not new religion, as Mr. H. G. Wells proposes, but) new or- 
ganization and reintegration of the old religion, shall we be so pain- 
fully powerless as men of God that we cannot obliterate our supremely 
silly and fanatically foolish fences and unite in Christ Jesus our Lord ? 

Shall we be so selfishly British or American, or French, that we 
cannot put humanity first and the nation second? 

The Rev. Fred W. Robertson, of Brighton, wrote in 1852 of his hope 
of an American and British alliance, these governments standing side 
by side in the "universal war" that he prophesied. Otherwise it would 
be all over, said he, with the cause of Liberty. We have the co-opera- 
tive effort now of these great giants. But they must stretch their ten- 
dons, quell the Teuton, strengthen Slavic democracy (the Slavs were 
anciently and primitively Democrats) and gather Gallic, Romanic and 
Celtic folk into the great garner of Christ's universal harvest crop. 

A true internationalism will be wrought out by this war that will 
make a melting-pot not of the United States of America, but of the 
world. A true Christianity will be evolved that will sweep out all the 
weak, timid rivalries of petty sects, or of narrow ecclesiasticism. A 
true humanity must be recognized which will exalt men and women 
more than any of social, national or racial groupings of individuals. 
Only by the acknowledgment of the two great unities, unity of all 
Christians in Christ, and unity of all nations in God's one family, will 
wars be made impossible, and man's inalienable rights established. 
Richmond, Va., June 30th, 1917. 



THE NEW INTERNATIONALISM 

To the Editor of The Living Church: 

If I understand him correctly, the Rev. O. W. Zeigler, writing of 
Internationalism from a legal point of view, agrees with my own senti- 
ments in large measure. "Sovereignty inheres in the ecumenicity of 
nations," he writes in your issue of June 23rd. His position seems 
to me to correspond with that of Professor Raleigh Minor of the 
University of Virginia Law School, son of that Dr. Minor who gave 
to this school its fame, a teacher whose opinions may have had in- 
fluence in shaping the thought of Mr. Woodrow Wilson, who was a 
law student in this University founded by Thomas Jefferson. 

The new Internationalism ought to transcend and supersede the 
world's present exaggerated and circumscribed nationalism. The theme 
of humanity that rings out in every utterance of Wilson can only be 

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appreciated by those who have s6nie sort of vision of a world-unity 
based on something better than the strife of nations and the survival 
of the militant. This Bismarckian, Bernhardian, Treitschkean concept 
is naught but revived Assryian, Babylonian, Chaldean, Macedonian, 
Roman imperialism. 

To return to my thesis of several weeks ago, the world has seen 
many times the political monarchism predominant; then ecclesiastical 
monarchism based on Roman political conceptions; then an attempt at 
industrial Internationalism which became entangled with the anarch- 
ism of Bakounin and failed. Now the time seems to be ripening for 
that larger pan-racial, pan-human federation, political, legal, social, 
and finally industrial, which will make a real world-unity. In thi3 
cooperation of nations by means of the delegation of powers by each 
government to representatives elected to a world-convention, resem- 
bling the early conventions which drew up our "articles of confeder- 
ation" and framed the basic principles of our ultimate "Union," we 
may consummate a federalization of states (i. e., of existent govern- 
ments). This will resemble our Union of States, not the Bismarckian 
union of principalities and powers in Germany. Such I take it is Prof. 
Raleigh Minor's conception. 

Of course, to determine the extent of the powers of the separate 
states of our country and of the Federal Government centered at 
Washington, the Supreme Court's judicial decisions have been of 
greatest importance. We must therefore have an ecumenical court of 
all the nations of the world. Then, there must be armed force to com- 
pel obedience. Just at this time the armies of the Entente represent 
this force. It was the cogent logic of this necessity that drew us into 
this conflict to make the world safe for democracy. But limitation of 
national armaments, and a final elimination of strife and bloodshed, 
ought to result from a victory of Germany's opponents. 

President Wilson's masterful messages have clarified the issue 
and made it evident to mankind that we are fighting in behalf of hu- 
manity — for real democracy. It is a majestie, a magnificent idea! It 
is the heroic sacrifice of all things in behalf of all men. It is the| 
one just reason for such stupendous wastage of all that such a war 
consumes. By the successful prosecution of such a war, the great ideal 
of united democracies may be, must be, achieved. 

We may regard Great Britain as progressively more and more 
democratic, ruled by Lloyd George's cabinet and the House of Com- 
mons. A far larger participation of her colonies, Canada, Australia, 
African possessions, India, New Zealand, and the rest, in the control 
of her great imperial affairs must (think the Viscount Bryce and oth- 
er great leaders of opinion) result from these colonies' splendid shar- 
ing in her sacrifices at this time. 

Success to Greece, to Spain, yes, to Germany, in democratic ideals 
and efforts! After this war we, or others, must live in the same small 
world with them all. May we not hope to live in confederated unity, 
and human fraternity ? Or are we expecting to continue armed campg 
calling themselves nations ? 
Richmond, Va., June 25, 1917. 



SOME NOTES ON RUSSIA 



(Wythe Leigh Kinsolving) 

What a vast and elephantine space is comprised in that part of 
the world map with the big letters R-U-S-S-I-A imprinted over its 
huge outline! Nearly one-sixth of the landed surface of our globe! 
Uncle Sam regards it now as big in bulk and big in potentialities. Yet 
when three Scandinavian brothers of ancient days were invited to come 
over and rule some of the scattered inhabitants of the steppes, the 
black lands, and the wooded regions that comprise much of European 
Russia there was no territory called by that name. But this was long 
ago, in round numbers about a thousand years. Rurik Sineous and 
Trouvor were the names of these well-nigh prehistoric brothers who 
benevolently assimilated the tribes that dwelt in this area. Rurik had 
the preeminence, and at his death Oleg, a fourth brother of this Norse 
family succeeded to the rulership. After him, Igar, son of Rurick, 
and then Olega, widow of Igor, ruled: after her Sviatoslaf, her son, 
who warred extensively against the Greek power centered at Byzan- 
tium. VLADIMIR, son of Sviatoslaf succeeded to the throne. He was 
a sensual debauchee for his time, rivalling Henry the Eighth, having 
3,500 wives and concubines. VLADIMAR, looking for a religion for 
his people, disdained Islam because it forbade wine; eschewed Judiasm 
probably for its rigor; and scorned Roman Catholicism, doubtless for 
lack of splendor in ritual and pomp; and finally chose Greek Christian- 
ity which centered in Constantinople. Baptized himself by Greek 
Hierarchs, he went to his subjects, drove them in herds into the Dnie- 
per and had Greek Priests read the Baptismal Service over them 
wholesale. Such was the introduction of Greek Christianity into these 
realms. Perun, the pagan divinity of the natives, a huge idol, was 
cast into the waters, and the people commanded to abstain from fur- 
ther worship of their pristine divinities. VLADIMIR died in 1015, 
that is 902 years ago, and Russia has been nominally a Christian land 
ever since. 

John R. Mott (one of Wilson's Commissioners to Russia with 
Root) said in one of his public lectures in Richmond College several 
months ago that Russia is one of the most religious countries in the 
world. Mott is an authority that Protestants of the most virile variety 
may trust. I might have cited the Bishop of London, whose visit in 
1907 to Richmond many Virginians will recall, but his testimony would 
not appeal as distinctly to the ultra-protestant, as John R. Mott, the 
world secretary of the Y. M. C. A. movement. The religion of the 
Greek bodies, oriental Catholics, emphatically and historically apposed 
to Roman Catholicism, is numerically the strongest aggregate of 
Christians in the world except the PAPAL CHURCH of ROME. The 
third is the Anglican branches of Catholicism (including the Protest- 
ant Episcopal Church in the U. S. A.) which comprehend at least a 
part of the Christianity of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales; Can- 
ada, New Zealand, Australasia, and South Africa, besides missions 
throughout the world. This aggregate in its formularies is avowedly 
also Catholic, just as the Greek Church is, but each is definitely, pos- 

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itively and thoroughly opposed to Papal or Roman principles of gov- 
ernment and policies. 

I have written this to throw emphasis upon the religion of the 
Russians, because I believe their religion will have much to do with 
forming a spirit of democratic national unity, in spite of the German 
intrigues, and in spite of gross and vast ignorance of the peasant pop- 
ulation, of which twenty-two and a half millions were freed from 
serfdom as late as 1861. 

As yet I have said nothing of the different varieties of races and 
peoples that go to make up the heterogeneous population of the new 
democracy of "The bear that walks like a man." 

Finns, Lapps, Poles and Lithuanians, besides Tatars who came 
with the conqueror Ghengis Khan and Turks and Jews and some 
Buddhist who live in the country with separate and distinct religions 
and customs, have all mingled in some degree with the Slav element 
which is that to which we refer primarily when we speak of Russians. 
The Russians are territorially divided in WHITE Russians, LITTLE 
Russians, and GREAT Russians. The Slavic character is predominant 
in each of these three branches. 

One of the most notable traits of the Slav is his love of local cen- 
ters of SELF-GOVERNMENT. The village MIR is an institution as 
old as the race and its most normal and regular manifestation of 
racial character. Originally and primarily the family was the social 
unit, and the father the patriarch. The MIR was a sort of generic 
assembly for self-government in the village-communities which ex- 
isted before the NORSE or Varangian rulers alluded to in the opening 
paragraph came to govern. The ecclestiastical innovation that came in 
with the Baptism of Vladimir, the later influx of Tatar domination 
and autocracy that came with Ghengis Khan, the counter-autocracy 
that developed in opposition to Tatar rule, and the subsequent mon- 
archal history of Russia, none of them wiped out or obliterated the 
ancient, traditional, and inherent love of local autonomy which has 
always been the most salient and conspicuous mark of Slavic nature 
and custom. 

This is eminently important to observe if we would reckon with 
the forces that must enter into the moulding of the New Republic 
which liberty-loving citizens of the United States long to see upbuilt 
out of the chaos and seeming anarchy and ignorance which press re- 
ports from the Russian centers most frequently reveal to the popular 
mind in America. The Mirs and the ZEMPTSVOS, or district assem- 
blies, drawn from a group of MIRS, were instrumental in providing 
some equipment for the Russian armies a year or two ago when Ger- 
man intrigue had undermined loyalty and patriotism in St. Petersburg, 
and the autocracy was sending soldiers into battle with terribly im- 
perfect arms, munitions and rations. Secretly and unobtrusively, the 
democratic, local, community-organizations, federated together and 
working in united effort, provided necessities for soldiers otherwise 
shamelessly and perfidiously neglected by the rotten corruption at the 
heart of the Russian Court. 

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A word ought to be said about Nihilism Anarchy, and social un- 
rest in Russia. It is an old saying that a girl in a convent is liable 
to be unduly bent on liberty once released from restraint. So have the 
thinking minds of Russia, fettered and chained with a false discipline, 
a bugbear of centralized power, which came into the country with 
the Tatars revolted against this overwhelming tyranny and gain, and 
become surcharged with the violence of desperation. Annihilation of 
government and existing institutions: overthrow and ruin of the mis- 
erable perversion of power; were the key-notes of the anarchy of 
BAKOUNIN and his school. Yet, when we think of Russia we mus.t 
not limit our thought either to the ignorant peasantry, nor the violent 
and uncontrollable anarchist. 

We must not forget the superb ethical and spiritual veracity of 
Tolstoi. Nor ignore the music of Tchaiskovski; nor the historians, ar- 
tists, poets, and scientists that have been produced in Russia of late 
years. Again if we would minimize the worth of these people on ac- 
count of the diversity of races intermingled in Russia, let us behold 
Austria and its variety quite as remarkable. Among the various sorts 
of peril with which we are frequently threatened, the Yellow Peril, 
etc., the Pan-Slav peril was vividly urged on our attention by the Ger- 
mans at the beginning of the war. Perhaps a Pan-Teuton Bete Noir 
causes us more concern just now. 

One of the best bulwarks against German aggression, or to speak 
more correctly, against Prussian aggrandizement, against Prussian 
despotic extension of power in Europe; and Prussian illimitable ambi- 
tion; is the vast bulk of Russian immobility and stolidity. Where 175 
millions are concerned, Germany may drive back a half million or so, 
but the cry is "Still they come!" It is not improbable that the vast 
bulk of Russia will yet be a safeguard to our American armies which 
we shall stnd to the Western Front in France. How? By looming up 
incessantly as a black sombre Slavic cloud in the East, frowning and 
ready to burst on Eastern German frontiers, notwithstanding the tem- 
porary checking of the recently reorganized Russian troops. 

The Russian problem is just as much Germany's as it is ours. The 
menace of "the Bear" is still with the Teuton. Russia ruined Napo- 
leon's ambitions — simply by retreating. She may yet ruin Germany's 
hopes by some unforeseen and sudden development not provided by the 
secret counsels of KAISER WILHEM. 



WILL MAN ABOLISH WAR? 

Wythe Leigh Kinsolving. 

The recent article in the North American Review by Harold Beg- 
bie, entitled "Can Man Abolish War?" is illuminating, but not final 
in its outlook. 

He seems to set the principle of arbitration over against that of 
a league of nations, (a Wilson plan, as he takes it); and while admit- 
ting the effectiveness of such a league, provided it were accompanied 
with the good will of the nations, he states that without good will such 
a league would be disastrous. Unless the league could hold down Ger- 
many, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria for an indefinite period there 

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would be no use organizing it. Perhaps it is the driving logic of this 
truism that dragged Uncle Sam into a "league" to "make the world 
safe for democracy." 

May I quote here an article I published on June 30th, before I 
ever saw Mr. Begbie's interesting discussion? Political monarchy, 
then ecclesiastical monarchy (Roman), and finally, economic deter- 
minism, or pure Marxian Socialism, have all failed in history. Let us 
strive for a new internationalism based upon the two great unities; 
unity of all men in one holy relationship of children of God first; only 
secondarily members of nations." * * * 

"Shall we be so selfishly British or American or French, that we 
cannot put humanity first, and the nation second?" 

"A true internationalism will be wrought out by this war that 
will make a melting pot not of the United States of America, but of the 
world. A true Christianity will be evolved that will sweep out all the 
weak, timid rivalries of petty sects, or of narrow ecclesiasticism. A 
true humanity must be recognized which will exalt men and women 
more than any social, national or racial grouping of individuals. Only 
by the acknowledgment of the two great unities, unity of all Chris- 
tians in Christ, and unity of all nations in God's one family, will wars 
be made impossible and man's inalienable rights be established." 

"In the (not new religion, as Mr. H. G. Wells proposes, but) new 
organization and reintegration of the old religion, shall we be so pain- 
fully powerless as men of God that we cannot obliterate our supremely 
silly and fanatically foolish fences, and unite in Christ Jesus our 
Lord?" 

"Bishop Boutflower's article in the Constructive Quarterly for 
June shows that Bishop Westcott, of Durham, believed in the abolition 
of the usual spirit of nationalism that is self-assertive, selfish and 
mean. e. g., Bishop Westcott wrote: "The Church is indeed finally the 
realization of the brotherhood of man, and it is the abiding pledge of 
that truth in the face of present separations and rivalries of na- 
tions." * * * 

In another published article I wrote June 25th: 

"The new internationalism ought to transcend and supersede the 
world's present exaggerated and circumscribed nationalism. The 
theme of humanity that rings out in every one of President Wilson's 
utterances can only be appreciated by those who have some sort of 
vision of a world unity based on something better than strife of na- 
tions and the survival of the militant. The Bismarckian, Bernhardian, 
Treitschean concept is naught but revived Assyrian, Babylonian, Chal- 
dean, Macedonian or Roman imperialism." 

The world has seen many times political monarchism predominant; 
then Roman ecclesiastical monarchism, based on Roman political con- 
ceptions; then an attempt at industrial internationalism, which be- 
came entangled with the anarchism of Bakounin. and failed. Now the 
time seems to be ripening for that larger, pan-national, pan-racial, 
pan-human federation, political, legal, social and finally industrial, 
which will make a real world unity. We may consummate a federation 
of states by delegation of powers to delegates representing the everal 

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governments of the world. Just as the Supreme Court's decisions have 
been of tremendous importance in determining the powers of our sev- 
eral states and the powers of the national central government, so a 
Supreme Court of the nations would adjudicate many questions in re- 
gard to the rights of the several nations represented. There must log- 
ically be an armed force to compel obedience. But this force should 
likewise be representative, even as Virginia, Maryland and ISew York 
and California are all represented in the army which is organized to 
stand for our nation and justice, as we, as a nation, not as distinct 
states, now see it. Limitations of national armaments, and a final 
elimination of strife and bloodshed, ought to result from a victory of 
Germany's opponents. We may regard Great Britain as progressive- 
ly more and more democratic, ruled now, as she is, by Lloyd George's 
cabinet and the House of Commons. 

A far larger participation of her colonies, Canada, Australia, Afri- 
ca, India, New Zealand and the rest, in the control of her great imper- 
ial affairs, must result from the colonies' splendid sharing of her sac- 
rifice at this time. So think Viscount Bryce and other great leaders 
of British opinion. 

To take up one of Mr. Begbie's cases of difficulty, which he pre- 
sents as examples of many more of like character: "Suppose India 
appealed to the court for self-government," he says. Well, if India 
can govern herself, would Great Britain put national selfiishness in 
the way of Indian autonomy, and would the British liberty-lovers that 
have wrung freedom from tyrants, papal, royal, aristocratic, or what 
not, stand in the way of India's self-rule, provided the question were 
sifted and justly adjudicated ? 

If good-will is the basal need before any plan of international con- 
federation can be attempted, then the best way to go about attaining 
good will, is to be overwhelmingly optimistic and be quit of our pes- 
simistic qualms. 

The closeness and proximity of islands and continents, brought 
into a world-neighborhood by means of transportation and communica- 
tion, render the world a small place today. The vastness of the en- 
gines of destruction, which, Hall Caine states, have slain ten millions 
of men in three years, render war not only barbaric, but super-human- 
ly atrocious, and ineffably mad. The hideousness of the thing, the 
foulness of its wholesale slaughter, make all former struggles seem 
as children's pugilism. 

If the fit were surviving, and the insane, the feeble and infirm, 
the effete, the outworn were sacrificed, then it would be lamentable, 
but bearable. As it is, when the flower of chivalry, the princely in 
courage, the aristocracy of endeavor and virility, are offered up to the 
Moloch of martial hatred and variance, surely Mr. Wilson, or any oth- 
er man who dreams of any sort of effort to prevent the repetition of 
such monstrous inhumanity ought to have the aid, the sympathy, the 
heart-felt prayers, the enthusiastic backing of all good men and women. 

Militarism has now only to exterminate militarism forever on 
God's earth. 

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ONE POSSIBLE PURPOSE OF THE WAR 

Mr. Editor: The evolutionary principles set forth by certain phil- 
osophy have always appealed to me as more or less clever and descrip- 
tive even if they were totolly inadequate to explain first causes. 

Development from the simple to the complex with variety in forms 
in the place of uniformity is certainly a law of the natural world, it 
matters not (for our argument) what have been the reasons for such 
variety. 

Now any book on sociology will probably indicate to us the various 
group relations of the human race, and the process of growing unities 
on the one hand and growing diversities on the other. Nations have 
grown up and some great national principles have unified them, such 
as the British Empire, the United States, Russia, or Germany. Yet 
the principle of local autonomy has developed side by side with this 
other movement. Unity in diversity has become manifested in these 
two contemporaneous movements. 

Now in religion modern diversity has manifested itself in most 
extravagant latitude. Yet the process of consolidation has not failed 
to apply in this field also. Not only has Rome and the Greek Church 
tended to consolidate each its own adherents. The Anglican Commun- 
ion has with remarkable success maintained and developed co-ordina- 
tion and relation among its branches. 

Great efforts like the Men and Religion Movement, the Laymen's 
Missionary Movement, the older Y. M. C. A., the Federation of the 
Council of Churches and other such organizations reveal the will of 
Protestantism to unify its widely diversified elements if possible and 
consolidate its parts effectively. 

In the political and governmental field the most vigorous minds of 
all the continents are desiring international unity, a new organization 
that shall embrace all the nations, and shall cement together the peo- 
ples of this globe in a new order of common humanity that transcends 
all lower systems of organization. Now the war itself is a great weld- 
ing agent. Religion is being cemented together, its forms are being 
welded, its barriers and fences are being obliterated. The real, the 
vital and the permanent things are standing. The needless, the in- 
significant, the merely sectarian, trivial or selfish are all falling away. 

Likewise in a war of a score of great nations, every nation is duly 
recognized, each has its mode of praise and unity of command. 

So a reasonable sort of international unity will certainly come 
out of this war. Perhaps that is God's purpose. Yet one may well 
be modest in saying what is the divine purpose or purposes. 

In England's history the Church was unified first and then the hep- 
tarchy became consolidated into a united nation. In the United States 
the remarkable Federal unity of states has become perfected long 
ahead of religion. 

Although Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth's plan for a body of chaplains 
authorized by Bishops and sent to minister to Christians in general, or 
people in general, in the army, has not been worked out in actual fact, 
yet it is one of the many manifestations of the desire for a united front 
on the part of American Protestantism. 

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Meantime the very Spirit of God seems to be increasing reciprocal 
respect between this and that body of Christians; widening and deep- 
ening the views of the man in the street in regard to his Christian 
brethren of all names, and making the flowers of our common Chris- 
tianity spring into blossom in magnificent and munificent labor and 
gifts and prayers for God's blessing upon the whole race of men. Thus 
it is that Unity of Religion and Unity in great international harmony 
and peace are making progress even while great guns belch fire, 
noxious gas suffocate, and shells mutilate, and machine guns extermi- 
nate. So doth the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ make the 
knowledge of His love to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. 
Chattanooga, Tennessee. 



BISHOP GORE'S ARTICLE ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS 



Editor The News: 

I am sending you the enclosed article of the Southern Churchman, 
Richmond, Va., Aug. 10, because this particular article was prompted 
by an editorial I read in The News quoting at length the paper of Bish- 
op Gore, of Oxford. 

Having read a number of Bishop Gore's books, I am of the same 
opinion as that expressed by the author of the editorial in question, 
stating that Bishop Gore is in influence probably second to no other 
scholar in his country. 

The present letter sent to the Southern Churchman is one of a se- 
ries I have written on the subject of these two great unities: The 
Unity of the Christians and the Unity of the Nations. The Living 
Church has published several and the Southern Churchman others be- 
fore this. 

I have not advanced in these letters exact modes or steps by which 
the Christian people of the world are to be brought into that unity 
for which Jesus Christ prayed in the 17th chapter of St. John. 

Neither have I dogmatized in regard to the political principles by 
which the nations are to be harmonized and united into a United States 
of the world. I have simply shown that the trend of great minds has 
been working toward these two ends of late. I have merely pointed out 
the fact that the philosophy makes these two ends the normal and nat- 
ural goal toward which society ought to strive. 

Believing that human wills working together with God, effect his- 
tory, and bring about events, I am convinced that agitation and discus- 
sion of such truly great and inspiring aims rivets men's attention on 
them, and tends to help to bring them about. 
Lookout Mountain, Aug. 10, 1918. 

The article follows: 

The Unity of the Race and the Unity of the Church 
Mr. Editor: 

The Southern Churchman has printed several letters and articles 
from the undersigned advocating the two great unities which must be 
the ideal of the human race if we would escape from the toils of our 
present encompassing evils. 

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I quoted at length from Bishop Boutflower's article setting forth 
Bishop Westcott's views as to the senseless vaunting of that sort of 
nationalism which is selfish, materialistic and mean. While in London 
recently I heard in St. Paul's cathedral a sermon from Canon Knox 
Alexander sharply and clearly accepting Woodrow Wilson's ideal of a 
league of nations, an international tribunal and disarmament, as the 
only conceivable ideal for the nations to fight for in the present strug- 
gle. 

The two unities which I have been advocating in the above men- 
tioned letter are the unity of the Christians in one Holy Catholic and 
apostolic fellowship: and the unity of the nations in one ecumenical 
and catholic (using these words in their original Greek sense) federa- 
tion. 

I am prompted to write just now by reading Bishop Gore's won- 
derfully vigorous plea for these same unities. A secular paper speaks 
of Bishop Gore, of Oxford, one "whose influence is probably second to 
no other scholar in his country." 

We simply cannot face the future without some fundamental re- 
pentance or change of mind in the nations — corporate repentance on 
the widest scale. We cannot face the prospect of peace, patched up 
with what ever balance of success on one side or the other at the end 
of this war, which shall leave every nation to expend its resources 
again in piling up gigantic armaments and entering into rival alliances, 
ready as soon as an interval of time has supplied a measure of recov- 
ered strength, to break out again in renewed war. 

"Upon what then can we rely for hope and resolution ? The first 
is the despair of the future which fills the minds of the people of all 
kinds when they contemplate the tendencies of national rivalry as they 
existed before the war and led to its outbreak, unless they can be pro- 
foundly modified or effectively restrained." He then advocates as a 
remedy a league of nations. 

Now in every city a small police force preserves the peace. Were 
the people not in full sympathy with this small force's authority, the 
gigantic titan power of a mob would rise like a French revolution and 
crush it at any time it wanted. But the consent of the governed gives 
power to the small group of police. 

In a league of nations a world police force could be appointed. 
Again the consent of the governed would give authority and effective 
power to the really intrinsically weak group of ships, guns, men and 
other agencies which might patrol and police this little globe as effec- 
tively as a modern city is protected. 

In God's name what nation other than Germany wants to fight 
any more ? Are not tens of millions adequate to satisfy the insatiate 
man of war? 

Of course H. G. Wells is blankly, baldly wrong when he talks about 
a finite God, and indicates that God could not prevent war if He would. 
To know more than the omniscient God knows about His own plans is 
some human wisdom indeed. But we mortals can organize our efforts 
to prevent if God wills, millions of deaths, millions of beds of pain, 
millions of agonizing widows, orphans and grieving parents. 

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To accept it all as fatalism, inevitable and necessary evil, this is a 
supine attitude indeed for nations to take who perform the stupendous 
tasks that England and our land have performed, the one in four years, 
the other in one year and a fraction. 

When men like Bryce, Balfour, Wilson, Baker, Taft, Clemenceau, 
and others of this calibre put their heads together, we may hope to see 
real effective plans formed to prevent the recurrence of international 
bloodshed, and to launch in its stead an era of international peace and 
harmony. The Christian sentiment of all God's people must be strong- 
ly marshaled to this end. 

Unity in faith and love, co-operation in prayer and earnest zeal in 
working together to this great common purpose will weld our Christian 
forces in every nation, and make us move forward toward that unity 
for which Jesus our common Lord prayed so fervently and with abso- 
lute assurance of His prayer's fulfillment. 
Chattanooga, Tennessee. 



REV. WYTHE KINSOLVING KNOWS JOHN POWELL WELL 



The Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, acting rector of St. Paul's 
church has known John Powell, the great American pianist, from 
childhood. Yesterday he wrote the following interesting sketch of the 
musician: 

"John Powell plays here Tuesday evening. Music-lovers have 
asked me to tell some things I know about John Powell. I knew him 
when he was a babe, and he played the piano sitting by his beautiful 
sisters, all of whom played splendidly, and reproducing Chopin's mel- 
odies, from the valses or nocturnes, even when he was not acquainted 
with a note of written music. His father was one of the handsomest 
men I have ever seen. His was a large and famous school for girls 
in Richmond, Va. His mother was a Miss Leigh, of my native county, 
Halifax, Virginia. At the University of Virginia, John took his B. A. 
in two years. It was said he never seemed to look at a book. It is 
considered three or four years' work to take a B. A. of the University 
of Virginia. He played Christ Church organ in Charlottesville while 
I sang there as a college boy in the choir. His mastery of the organ 
was remarkable, since the piano is his instrument. He went to Ger- 
many, later he graduated and spent most of the next ten years in Eu- 
rope studying and of late giving concerts in the great European capi- 
tals. 

"When John comes back to Halifax there is always great interest 
He is a remarkable genius and has a few of the eccentricities, but they 
are not disagreeable ones. 

"His sonata 'Teutonica,' played at the beginning of the world war, 
indicated the strange German spirit, almost the arrogant boast of the 
Hun, but John stopped playing this work, I presume, when Uncle Sam 
got wide-awake and rolled up his sleeves. 

"I heard John Powell in Aeolian hall, New York, play Schumann 
in a marvelous manner, the audience, some of New York's greatest 
musicians, encored him back to the stage eight or ten times; finally, 

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when it was all done; they went to the withdrawing room, brought him 
back again to the piano, and almost compelled him to play a part of 
the program over. And he really did acquiesce. I had seen him in his 
private withdrawing room practicing just before this triumph. He 
greeted me with warm and kind affection, and after the performance 
gave my mother a hearty embrace and a kiss. I love John Powell, I 
loved his father, and I commend him as one of the greatest pianists 
in the world. He spent a week or two with Paderewski some time ago, 
and the great Pole did not fail to value his friendship nor his genius. 
May these little sidelights but add to his success in reaching the hearts 
of Chattanoogans." 



TRIBUTE TO COL. LAURSON 



Beautiful Memorial Service at St. Paul's Church 



Mr. Kinsolving, in an eloquent eulogy, paid tribute to Col. Laur- 
son, who, he said, had all three of the virtues of the soldier, faith, 
courage and loyalty. He declared that America was not fighting for 
glory or honor, but that the weak might be protected and the down- 
trodden uplifted. "America was called into the strife by the will of 
Jesus Christ," is the way the minister phrased his declaration that 
this is a holy war for righteousness. "Brute force must yield to God- 
like righteousness" was his word picture of the outcome of the great 
struggle. 

He said that the service was one to hallow and to honor the mem- 
ory of the first high officer to go out from the parish and to give 
his life for his country and his God. At the conclusion of his eulogy 
the bugler sounded "taps" and the benediction was said. 



OBITUARY 



Rev. W. L. Kinsolving said the the life of Lewis Coleman was an 
exemplification of three great virtues — honor, generosity and chivalry. 
He explained that since the earliest history of the south, her sons have 
been taught to esteem and exemplify these virtues. "He came into the 
world a scion of famous stock descended from Revolutionary heroes 
and from Virginia educators," stated the speaker. "He was reared in 
an atmosphere of gentility and of purity. It is little wonder then that 
he was honest to the core. His word was as good as his oath. He 
knew naught of scraps of paper. When Louis Coleman said a thing, 
men knew his promises would be performed; he spoke the truth al- 
ways. 

"His generosity was extended to all with whom he came in daily 
contact. It was a part of his great being. 

"Again, he was a true and noble representative of the sunny 
southland in his exemplification of chivalry, in his tender regard and 
appreciation of all those beautiful traits which go to make up lovely 
womanhood. These were a few of his virtues. Of others there are 

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many. They shall cause us to remember him long after his body has 
been molded into clay by Mother Earth, and when the last great day 
conies we believe the Maker of all things will greet him with words, 
'Well done thou good and faithful servant; welcome into the kingdom. 
Thou hast been faithful in a few things, I will make thee ruler over 
many.' " 



THE LATE JOHN HOWE PEYTON 

With something akin to a sharp pang I read of the death of John 
Howe Peyton, the President of the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail- 
road, until it was taken over by the Government. 

A scion of one of the finest old Virginia families, he had com- 
menced life r.s a boy without means, been educated at Roanoke Col- 
lege, forged his way by sheer character and perseverance to the pin- 
nacle of a prominent career as a civil engineer and a railroad organizer 
and builder. But his energies were not limited to his business and pro- 
fessional success. He was on nearly every prominent committee of 
church work in this Diocese of Tennessee, a leader of Christ Church 
Bible Class, a prominent spokesman among Christian men, a splendid 
example of regular and vigorous lay activity in the Church. Moreover 
in agriculture, in the importation and establishment of a Belgian colo- 
ny near Tullahoma, and in every sort of benevolent enterprise, Mr. 
Peyton was the type and model of a fine, unselfish Christian gentleman. 

I cannot fail to offer this poor verbal tribute to one whom I knew 
and honored and loved as I did Mr. Peyton. 
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 18, 1918. 



VICTORY OF NATION SOLEMNLY CELEBRATED 



Impressive Service at St. Paul's Church. Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving 
Preaches Great Sermon. World Crisis. 

Victory of the nation was celebrated at St. Paul's church yester- 
day with a solemn and interesting service. The services consisted of a 
celebration of the holy communion, with thanksgiving for victory and 
prayers for the reconstruction and upbuilding of damaged and ruined 
European countries was offered to God by the minister in charge of St. 
Paul's church, Rev. Wythe L. Kinsolving. This service will be repeated 
at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. 

Rev. Kinsolving, rector, preached an instructive sermon at the 
Sunday morning hour, taking as his text II Corinthians, iv:3-4 . He 
spoke in part as follows: 

" 'But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom 
the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believed 
not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, Who is the image 
of God should shine unto them.' 

"St. Paul is writing to the people at Corinth, that great and beau- 
tiful city known as the 'eye of Greece.' 

"Now it seems that in the world today we have come to a great 
crisis in human affairs. 

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"Now where the spirit of Jesus Christ is there is liberty, wrote the 
apostle. The downfall of monarchies, the rise of republics, the over- 
throw of tyrants and the liberation of human wills came on earth with 
the birth of Jesus Christ. Yet for two thousand years the titans have 
struggled to retain their tenacious grip upon the peoples of the earth. 
But now the peoples of the earth are being made free to become the 
sons of God. Now the nations are obtaining their right to rule them- 
selves. Now the people of each nation is acquiring their right to rule 
their own country for themselves. It is marvelous. It is almost mir- 
aculous. It is amazing. It is clearly the power of the spirit of the 
living God descended from heaven and guiding the destinies of men 
upon this earth. 

"But yet there may be some people who cannot even yet see all 
this. There may be some men and women who are fools enough, 
blind enough, callous enough, ignorant enough, thick-skulled and ob- 
tuse enough, even now to fail to observe the infinite mercy of God in 
Jesus Christ in thus saving the world from autocracy, tyranny, des- 
potism, monarchical selfishness and meanness. 

"But, as St. Paul says, 'But if our Gospel is hid, it is hid to them 
that are lost; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of 
them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, 
Who is the image of God, should shine unto them.' 

"What is our duty as an alleged Christian nation at this time? 
Shall we stay in our comfortable homes on the Lord's day, Sunday, and 
fail to enter in God's courts with thanksgiving and into His gates with 
praise? Shall we neglect the gift that is in us by the laying on of 
apostolic hands ? Or shall we remember that St. Paul said to St. Tim- 
othy, 'Neglect not the gift that is in thee by the laying on of my 
hands?' 

"Shall we eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His blood, or 
shall we forget that Jesus said: 'Whosoever eateth my flesh and 
drinketh my blood hath the eternal life?' " 



THE OBSERVANCE OF BRITAIN DAY 



Why our Nation Should Have Strong Feeling of Friendship and 
Gratitude for Great Britain. 



Britain Day, December 7th, was observed in many cities and towns 
of the United States in response to the suggestion, as a rule, of clergy- 
men of the Church, and in most instances the exercises or services were 
held in Parish churches or Parish houses. The day was more generally 
observed than in former years and has resulted in a better understand- 
ing on the part of Americans of our kinship and similarity to British 
thought and culture and traditions, and sentiments and tendencies. 
Prior to the observance of the day at Chattanooga, Tenn., in St. Paul's 
Church, the Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, acting rector, by special re- 
quest, contributed the following paper to the Daily Times of his city, 
setting forth the reasons for observing Britain's Day: 

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The committee who are arranging to celebrate December 7th, 
Britain Day, have requested me to say something in regard to the rea- 
son for our country observing such a day. What day in our history this 
is I do not know, but certain New York organizations have requested 
cities and towns in the United States to unite on this day in the com- 
mon observance of Britain Day. My function is to. state briefly why 
our country ought to honor the work of Great Britain in the war just 
ended, and why our nation should have strong feelings of friendship 
and gratitude for Great Britain. 

We are Primarily Scions of the Stock of Great Britain. 

In the first place, because we speak the English language, indi- 
cating thereby that we are primarily scions of the stock of Great 
Britain. Whatever other blood we have infused in this nation came 
later. The cavaliers and English Churchmen came first to Virginia; 
the Pilgrim Fathers and Puritans came second to New England. Vir- 
ginia was named for the Virgin Queen Elizabeth. New England was 
named for Old England in loyal love and regard for her institutions. 
But this question of language is the index of other things. With the 
English language, we have the English ideas. The home, the family 
life, the love of the Bible, the clean moral sense of our men in regard 
to their wives; the loyal regard of women for their marriage vows; the 
sanctity of home and marriage in fact; these are derived along with 
our language from our English ancestors, or, if you please, Scotch, or 
Scotch-Irish. Then there is our regard for the Lord's Day. The Eng- 
lish Sunday has for centuries been different from the continental Sun- 
day. One has only to leave Virginia or Tennessee, and go to St. Louis, 
to feel the tremendous difference between the Sunday of one section 
and that of the other. Where the old English or Scotch Presbyterian, 
or Scotch-Irish Episcopalian sentiments prevail — where the Roger Wil- 
liams Baptists, or the Jonathan Edwards Congregationalists, or the 
Coke and Ashbury and Dwight L. Moody Methodist types prevail — to 
say nothing of other such influences — we have quiet orderly Sundays. 
In St. Louis and such German-impregnated cities, where continental 
ideas have been introduced, you will find dance halls open and Sunday 
churches empty; Sunday transformed into a holiday and no longer a 
holy day, set apart for worship and reverent abstinence from up- 
roariouc sorts of pleasure. 

We Did Not Cut With Great Britain For Good in 1776. 

Another question, however, comes to my mind in connection with 
our observance of Britain day. Did we not cut with Britain in 1776 for 
good ? I answei : No. We cut with Autocracy. A German king ruled 
England. Burke's speech on "Conciliation With America" is a magnifi- 
cent classic that pleads for justice to the colonies. Pitt, Lord Chatham 
was scarcely less just to America. The pig-headed characteristic stub- 
bornness of the mind, however, prevailed. The stamp act was enacted. 
The Boston tea party occurred. Patrick Henry spoke. George Wash- 
ington, Braddock's former subordinate officer, now became the colo- 
nists' protagonist for liberty. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration 
of Independence. Later Madison, Monroe, Adams, Richard Henry Lee 
■ — observe the names of all pure British names — proceeded to construct 

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the fabric of a new government that drew its finest and best princi- 
ples from the Magna Charta, and other sources of British law. Where 
did these English-speaking and English-thinking men get their ideas 
of liberty, of law, of fine balance, of equity, of sober justice, of clean 
fair-mindedness ? Where but from their mother, Old England herself ? 
The Mighty Daughter Has Grown Into Womanhood. 

But we must jump from the beginning of the last century to the 
beginning of this century, from 1814 to 1914. In 100 ordinary years 
events tremendously extraordinary have happened (if anything does 
really happen.) The mighty daughter of a mightier mother has 
grown into womanhood. Columbia rises to imperial strength and obli- 
gation. A world war originates from the covetous malice of the Hoh- 
enzollerns, combined with the fool's paradise — dreams of world con- 
quest of Prussian war lords. 

Great Britain, with her usual sense of justice, condemns the vio- 
lation of Belgian neutrality. Germany with ten million soldiers ready 
to fight, first hypocritically avows her fears of a panslavic invasion, all 
the while looking forward to a Russian debacle by reason of her un- 
remitting agencies, economic, industrial and political at work in Rus- 
sia to destroy that elephantine but flabby monarch. The first British 
100,000 are rushed to meet and help to block the oncoming hordes of 
Hunnish ferocity in France. They are almost exterminated. This is 
the mark of what follows. One million and more of Britain's subjects 
fall in battle. Her wounded, killed and unaccounted for amount to 
nearly four millions. 

German intrigue undermir.^ Italy. A year ago, when I arrived 
in France, Italy had undergone crushing defeat. With Russia and 
Italy so weakened, Great Britain and France were undoubtedly in dan- 
ger of a German conquest. Without the intervention of American 
arms Germany would have dominated the world. But it was not so to 
be. 

Pro-German pacifism in Wisconsin, Missouri and other German 
impregnated sections of the country was defeated by the sober, right- 
eous and godly judgment of the English-speaking and English-think- 
ing element of our nation * * * While the pro-German element whip 
ped up jealousy of Great Britain, the sane and steady mind of America 
chose British sea power, with all the worst it might ever have done, 
rather than German military rule with its unspeakable train of blood 
and cruelty of lust, of tortures of fiendish wickedness and godless bar- 
barity. 

And Now the Die is Cast. 

And now the die is cast. We are united, in sentiment and in lan- 
guage, in fixed ideas of liberty and representative government, in re- 
gard for the individual, and respect for local autonomy, with British 
ideals and British postulates. The greatest fighting power on earth 
right now is the British fleet. The most rapidly growing commercial 
power on earth is the American merchant marine. The center of 
the world's finance today is New York. The second center is London. 
Britain is powerful on the sea. We are powerful in wealth and finan- 
cial control. By means of our wealth we could vie with Great Britain 

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in attempting to outgrow her fleet. Or we can combine with Great 
Britain and together use the combined power of money and naval 
strength to police the world in righteousness, and direct human affairs 
in justice. 

By the league of nations we shall extend to other powers priv- 
ileges and opportunities. Thus national jealousies and animosities 
shall be prevented. "Noblesse oblige." Power entails responsibility. 
United we stand, divided we fall. Great Britain and her daughter, the 
United States, strong, courteous, Christian, shall note with magnificent 
recognition the sacrifices of Belgium, the unspeakable outpouring of 
French blood, the loss of more than a million French lives; yes, and 
the terrible sufferings of disintegrated Russia, the rebudding of Polish 
national ambitions, and all the other nations' hopes for a place in the 
sun believing as we do that God makes His sun to shine on the evil, as 
well as on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the 
unjust. Thus having taken out the fangs, we shall allow Germany to 
exist! Even though the eradication of the Amalekites was the divine 
law of the ancient Hebrew! But our British forbears and ourselves are 
the followers of Christ. And His standards are above those of ancient 
days. Thus the fleet that protected us, the fleet that supplied four- 
fifths of our transportation to Europe when we had to transport our 
two million soldiers, the fleet that belted the world with a cordon that 
strangled German sea serpents and saved our men from their maws; 
the fleet that provisioned and protected Great Britain's eight million 
soldiers and sailors through four years of titanic and satanic writhing 
of Teuton malice — that fleet shall be honored and respected by us with 
gratitude and kindly affection — certainly not to be eyed by us with 
envy or pusilanimous and timid apprehension. 

Let the Mother England and the Daughter Columbia, join hands 
and vow justice for God's children everywhere. 



REV. W. L. KINSOLVING DISCUSSES PRAYER 

Two of the old familiar hymns were sung at the opening of the 
Lenten service yesterday: "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," and "Come, 
Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove," and the devout singing of the congrega- 
tion prepared the way for the excellent address on Prayer that follow- 
ed. The creed, Lord's Prayer, collect, and benediction were led by the 
Rev. A. G. Head, curate of Christ Church. 

Mr. Kinsolving, who comes of a family highly distinguished in the 
ranks of the Episcopal clergy, is a vigorous and thoughtful speaker, 
tall and slender in physique, earnest and practical in his mode of 
speech. "Lord, teach us to pray," he said, was the appeal to the disci- 
ples to Jesus, and in response He gave them what we call the Lord's 
Prayer, and said "after this manner pray ye." Not always in these 
words, but in the spirit of this prayer, men are to worship. The ra- 
tionale of public worship, said the speaker, is to teach men how to 
pray. The historic prayers used by the liturgical churches are design- 
ed to cultivate the habit of sensible, rational, acceptable praying. In 
the Holy Communion we perform an act of thanksgiving and prayer 

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in obedience to the Lord's command, "Do this in remembrance of me." 

In addition to ceremonial or public prayer, continued Mr. Kinsol- 
ving, we have mystical, personal, secret or private prayer. There one 
meets God face to face, &s Jacob did at Penuel. We may express to 
Him our private thoughts. The unjust judge of the parable vindicated 
the poor widow against her persecutor, not because of the justice of 
her claim, but because her frequent appeals disturbed his comfort. 
How much more will our loving father hear our secret petitions! A 
great obstacle to private prayer is lack of right relations with our fel- 
lowmen, continued the speaker. How can a man pray while he is at 
enmity with his brother ? We are taught to say, "Forgive us our tres- 
passes — that is "our blunders" — as we also have forgiven those who 
have tresspassed against us." 

Some prayers remain unanswered, said the speaker. David prayed 
that his child's life might be spared, but God let him die. David did 
not repine, however, but resumed his usual life in submission to the 
will of God, who had denied his request. Paul prayed that the thorn in 
his flesh might be removed; God let the thorn stay, but gave him grace 
to endure it. Jesus in Gethsemane prayed that the "cup" of sorrow 
might pass from Him, but God let Him drink it. Yet the Father gave 
the Son of that superb patience that He manifested on the cross. 

Again, said Mr. Kinsolving, prayer is a practical thing. That is, 
you are to do what you can to answer your own prayers. This is one 
of the most important things about prayer — that we should do what we 
can to help God to answer our petitions. In this spirit of "co-operative 
prayer, we should enter upon every undertaking in life. Elijah did 
this, and so did Moses. Jesus in the wilderness spent forty days in 
prayer and resisting temptation; and then he came forth to proclaim 
the kingdom of God, to teach His disciples, and to lay the foundations 
of His Church. This combining of practice with petition is the thing 
that moves the world. Columbus, Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus and Sir 
Isaac Newton lifted their petitions to God and then they went forth to 
discover continents and to unveil the secrets of the stars. In fact, 
everything in history that is most worthy has been brought about 
through the prayer that is earnest in its working. This was in the 
thought of Christ when he taught his disciples to pray, "Thy kingdom 
come." 

A large congregation listened with close attention to this helpful 
address. Rev. Mr. Kinsolving will speak again today at the noonday 



THREE ELEMENTS OF RELIGION 



Rev. Wythe L. Kinsolving, of Richmond, spoke at the noonday 
Lenten service at the American theater yesterday, taking as his text 
the words of Christ in the Sixth chapter of John, "I am the Bread of 
Life." Beginning with the statement that there are three elements 
essential to all religion, he discussed each one briefly and with great 
vigor. 

1. The mystical or contemplative element, leading the soul to in- 
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timate communion with God. This exists in Buddhism. Mohammedan- 
ism and Christianity— in fact, in all religions, Methodism, he said, has 
put great emphasis upon this phase of religion, and Martin Luther did 
likewise. 

2. The practical element, which predominates in many persons. 
Such a man says, "If one does right, acts according to his conscience, 
and does good, that one has religion." The speaker went on to show 
that St. James made much of this element, that Christ emphasized it in 
the Sermon on the Mount, and that Socrates and other heathen moral- 
ists had laid stress on the value of good works. Philanthropy, the 
fruits of the spirit — love, long suffering and the rest — are absolutely 
necessary to all religions. 

3. The ritual, or ceremonial, element of religion was next discuss- 
ed. Mr. Kinsolving gave the opinion that Americans as a rule have 
paid but little attention to this element. But Christ was a priest after, 
the order of Melchizedek, and He instituted the Holy Eucharist, having 
this ceremonial element of religion in view. Signs of this element are 
seen in the early church in the regular assemblies of Christians, and in 
the "breaking of bread and the prayers." All religions, said the speak- 
er, have a ceremonial feature; even the Quaker has his ceremony of 
silence. Christian Science, he declared, substitutes for the ritual of 
Christ a ritual of its own. While Christ did not ordain the Order of 
Morning and Evening Prayer in the Prayer Book, He did ordain the 
Holy Eucharist. Why should not that be the center of our ritual? 
Christ satisfies the hunger of the mystical soul, that of the practical 
one and that of him who hungers after the ceremonial of religion. 

There was a large congregation present, and Dr. Steinmetz, rector 
of Christ Church, presided and led the ritual service. There will be no 
meeting at noon today. 



THE FOUNTAIN OF ALL TEMPTATION 



Where temptations come from and how they are to be overcome 
was the topic of the Lenten lecture yesterday at the American theatre 
by Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving. "Make me a clean heart, O God," 
and various scriptures bearing on the source of temptation and sin 
were recited, and the speaker went on to declare that "Man is his own 
Devil, his own tempter and worst enemy. Out of the heart proceed all 
things that tempt men. When the psalmist prayed for a clean heart 
he meant that the fountain and source of all temptation must be 
cleaned." The Holy Spirit leads men into places of temptation, the 
speaker further declared. And yet, as St. Paul says, "God will not suf- 
fer us to be tempted above what we are able to bear." St James says 
that "every man is led away of his own lust and enticed," so that God 
does not entice any one to do evil. It is the evil desire of the heart 
that produces sin. "We could very well eliminate the Devil from our 
theology," says Mr. Kinsolving, and then he suggested that our con- 
ceptions of Satan are largely influenced by Milton's "Paradise Lost" 
and Goethe's "Faust." 

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"What is temptation?" he asked. "Is it not to be subjected to 
test or strain?" He then cited the example of Christ, who was "God 
walking on human feet, thinking with a human brain, and sharing with 
us all the human passions." Having been led into the wilderness by 
the Holy Spirit. He was subjected to temptations that are common 
to human nature, and that were also representative of what He en- 
dured all through his earthly life. The three temptations mentioned 
appealed to his body, his mind and his spirit. The third temptation 
was explained as a solicitation to subject His spirit to the lower part of 
His nature. 

So then, continued the speaker, the Holy Spirit subjects men to 
temptation by bringing them into places where it exists, but the thing 
that actually tempts is in our passions and wills. If our hearts are 
clean none of these enticements can touch us. So it was with Christ. 
"The fruit of the Spirit is self-control," was quoted from the writings 
of Paul. Men must learn self-control, declared Mr. Kinsolving, by ex- 
ercising their own faculties, and not depend upon the intervention of 
the State. "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our 
faith," said he, and "Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory, 
through our Lord Jesus Christ." Christ learned obedience by things 
that he suffered, and so must we learn in the school of temptation. If 
we can truly say as the apostle said, "Christ liveth in me," and real- 
ize that He is in us "the hope of glory," then we shall be "more than 
conquerors" through fellowship with him. 

Rev. Dr. Steinmetz, rector of Christ Church, presided at the ser- 
vice and conducted the devotional exercises. 



FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT 

(Written for The News, by Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving.) 
"The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gen- 
tleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there 
is no law."— Galatians v:22-23. 

I never like to hear the love of God limited. It irks me to hear 
men set confines and bounds to God's grace. I am almost grieved to 
hear any form of gospel preached that make God's infinite love and 
compassion "cabin'd, cribb'd, confined." 

I believe that God so loved the world that He gave His only be- 
gotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should have eternal life. 

I stake my whole faith on the statement God sent not His Son 
into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him 
might be saved. Now these savings of God places no conditions upon 
His will to save men. Of course man himself may place a condition 
upon His will to save men. Of course, man himself, may place a 
condition upon his own salvation. He may not believe. He may re- 
fuse to seek God, to ask that He may receive, seek that he may find 
and knock that God may open to him. But this is man's failure, not 
God's will for him. "It is not the will of My Father that one single 
one of these little ones should perish," said our blessed Saviour when 
He shows the apostles the Father's will for little children. Why did 

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He love children? Because they loved Him with all their hearts. His 
nature was exactly like theirs, pure, clean, sincere, frank, mirror-like 
in its simplicity. 

"Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter into the 
kingdom of Heaven." The angels of God must look and act very much 
like children. Jesus said that little children's guardian angels were be- 
fore the throne of the Father always beholding His face. 

Now this simple nature of a child is the kind of character that not 
only the Saviour describes as godlike and desirable for all His follow- 
ers. It is the same character that the apostles depict in their pen 
pictures of true Christian life. 

Almost every virtue named in the list chosen for our text is a 
child-like quality. A child is filled with love, and joy and peace. A 
child becomes wonderfully long suffering ofttimes when brought to 
bear pain or anguish. The patience of sick children is some times a 
miracle of beauty. The gentleness, goodness, yes, and the faith of 
children is remarkable. A gentleman is just a grown up child. 

"Jesus, Meek and Gentle, Son of God Most High," we teach chil- 
dren to sing because His gentleness is like theirs. We often heard it 
said of little boys or girls: "He or she is so good!" Goodness is not 
abnormal in a child. Badness is often the fault of thoughtlessness, un- 
sympathetic fathers or mothers who leave the maid or nurse to bring 
up their children while they play cards or go to teas or engage in Red 
Cross activities, or visit orphans, or do other such altruistic or patriotic 
service to the state or society. But the normal trait of a child is gen- 
tleness, and likewise goodness, and, moreover, faith. Do we not say 
"As trustful as a child?" A suspicious, untrustful child is either dis- 
eased or has not been treated right. The healthy and well treated child 
is full of trust. Faith in people as well as faith in God belongs nat- 
urally to children. 

Now meekness is likewise a child-like virtue. A child knows that 
he does not know everything and has much to learn. A little girl is 
usually timid and bashful chiefly because of her meek spirit. We speak 
of a young boy as tied to his mother's apron string because in the ear- 
liest stages the help and care of the mother is needed, and afterward 
we think he should be loosed from the apron strings and made able to 
fend for himself. Most children are a little shy, and need encourage- 
ment to overcome their backwardness. It is usually meekness that 
makes children hold back. But meekness is the trait that throws us 
upon God to find aid when we lack confidence in our own powers. It 
seems to me a child-like virtue. The last in the list of Saint Paul is 
temperance. Now a child is temperate if wisely brought up by the 
parent. 

Tennyson says: 

"The baby, new to earth and sky, 
What time the little hand is pressed 
Upon the circle of the breast 
Has never thought that this is I." 
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No, the tiny babe has never thought that "This is I," nor has the 
little visitor from another sphere, as we are wont to think, any knowl- 
edge of limits. The mother guides and directs his desires, and satisfies 
his wants. Yet, nature, that is to say, his own organization, working 
like a clock, demands at regular intervals food and sustenance. The 
normal babe is temperate. Having enough he is satisfied. Not satiety, 
not over much, but just enough to sustain the processes of nature is his 
demand. 

Of course, sickly, unhealthy, and abnormal children cannot be 
classified under this head. But the truly normal child wants enough, 
not too much. And that is real temperance. Temperance is not de- 
nying oneself food or drink. Temperance is limiting our bodies to 
the standard of sufficiency. Now, love, joy, peace, long suffering, gen- 
tleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance — these have been shown 
to be in some respects all the virtues of children. 

They are said by Saint Paul to be the fruit of the spirit. He means 
they are the product, the result, the effect of the holy spirit dwelling 
in us. Jesus laid His hands on little children and prayed for them 
that they might receive this blessed holy spirit. 

The apostles laid their hands on the baptized at Samaria and 
gave them the gift of the holy spirit. Saint Paul laid his hands upon 
the group at Ephesus and gave them the holy spirit. Saint Paul re- 
minds Saint Timothy of the gift that Timothy has in him by the lay- 
ing on of Saint Paul's hands. Now the spirit of God illuminates, en- 
lightens, develops and improves every facility of mind and body. A 
spirit-filled child is more loving, joyous, peaceful, long-suffering, gen- 
tle, good, faithful, meek and self-controlled than a child without the 
spirit of God. 

Do you say that every child has the spirit of God ? Well, yes. But 
still Jesus did breathe upon the apostles and say: "Receive ye the Holy 
Spirit." . . . Jesus did say: "Tarry ye here at Jerusalem until ye 
be clothed with power from on High." The apostles did receive the 
holy spirit at Pentecost, tongues like as of fire resting upon each of 
them. Jesus did command: "Go ye into all the world and preach the 
gospel to every creature, baptizing them into the name of the Father, 
the Son and the Holy Spirit." 

No, Saint Paul tells us there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 
on God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all." 
He tells us there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit. 

Now, what can we gather but this? The holy spirit is given in 
baptism and in the laying on of hands. Whatever gifts and graces 
men, women or children had before this special reception of the holy 
spirit are enhanced, increased, developed, amplified, intensified. 

All these virtues of the text: Love, joy, peace, long suffering, 
gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control (that is the 
Greek word for temperance), are child-like virtues. But to retain these 
virtues, to nourish these virtues, to feed and make them grow we are 
told to use means of grace. 

Thus in baptism the child renounces the spirit of evil and the sin- 
fuj desires, promises faith toward God as expressed in the creed oi 



Christendom, the common faith of all Christians; and promises to 
keep God's holy will and commandments. 

Now if we enlisted a soldier and told him of no foes to fight, 
would it be fair? If we baptize a child and tell him nothing of sin 
and its seductiveness is it just to the child? Certainly not. There- 
fore the children of the church are taught to be on guard against the 
sins of our mortal nature. Later when they have verified this fight 
in actual experience, when they have seen how hard it is to be a Chris- 
tian, they long for a further gift of the holy spirit in confirmation or 
the laying on of hands. 

They long for frequent food that their souls shall not starve. They 
long to eat Christ's body and drink of Christ's blood that He may 
dwell in them and they in Him. They want the fruit of the spirit, and 
what means of grace Christ has given His church these means of 
grace they would use, and continue to use that they may sustain and 
develop all the virtues and that the grace of God may mortify and kill 
all vices in them. Therefore, it is that the spiritually minded, normally 
and naturally, long to come to the Lord's table, joyously praying in 
their hearts as they draw nigh to take the body and blood of their Lord. 
"And so we come: oh, draw us to Thy feet, 

Most patient Savior, who canst love us still; 
And by this food so awful and so sweet 

Deliver us from every touch of ill. 
In thine own service make us glad and free, 
And grant us never more to part with Thee." 

But when the daily toil, the routine of life, the things of the world 
and of sense, cut in upon their will and intention to be better; when the 
evil that is in every one of us, and which is a barrier to the success of 
us in being and doing what we ought; when, in short, they soon feel 
their weakness and need of Jesus Christ's holy arm to sustain and 
guide and restrain and uphold, then again they seek the threshold of 
His holy temple. Then again they lay their heads upon the breast of 
Jesus Christ; then again they become as little children, asking bread of 
the Father, who will not give them a stone; asking for the Holy Spirit, 
because He has promised: "How much more will your Heavenly Fath- 
er not give His holy spirit to them that ask Him." Cried the ancient 
prophet, "Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; come 
buy wine and milk, without money and without price!" Cried St. John 
in Revelations: "Let whosoever will come and take of the waters of 
life freely." 

Cries Jesus Christ: "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and 
heavy laden, and I will refresh you." 

And when you reply, Why the church? Why the sacraments? 
Why not solitary seeking God in my own house? Why not the fruit 
of the Spirit without the church and without the sacraments ? With- 
out organization? Without association? Without churchianity ? 
Without ecclesiastical conventions and discussions, and all the hum- 
drum of religious business ? 

Friend, why the cantonment, the drill, the camp, the military pis 
ganisation before war and victory ? 

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Jesf.s said, "On this rock (of Peter's confession and faith) I will 
build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." 
Can you with your frail conceptions either tear away His promise or 
His church's foundation? 

The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love and joy and peace, longsuffer- 
ing, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness and self-control. 
The sacraments of baptism, confirmation and holy communion are 
means by which we receive more and more of God's gift of the Holy 
Spirit, and bring forth in our lives this same fruit of the Spirit. 

Inconsistency, failure and disgrace are nearly always found in 
him or her who neglects, not in him or her who uses and loves God's 
holy sacraments. 

If you believe that you are better without these things than those 
who use these means of grace, that very boast makes you a Pharisee. 
If you desire to use every means of being better and are not satisfied 
with yourself, this very spirit makes you humble and penitent. You 
are in a ripe mood to receive the grace of God and bring forth the fruit 
of the Spirit. Amen. 



SERMON FOR CHURCHLESS SUNDAY 



THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE 

(By the Rev. Wythe L. Kinsolving, Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church.) 

Text — St. John xiv:6 — "I am the way, the truth and the life. No 
man cometh unto the Father but by me." 

We may take these words as the substantial utterance of Jesus 
Christ Himself. The spirit of this Gospel according to Saint John, 
the inner essence of it, is of the same warp and woof with the inner 
essence of Saint Paul's deepest teaching of Jesus Christ. This Gospel 
makes no higher or deeper claims for Christ's divine authority than 
passages in Saint Matthew or Saint Luke such as "No man knoweth 
the Son but the Father, and no man knoweth the Father but the Son, 
and he to whom the Son hath revealed Him." Again from Matthew: 
"Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time — but I say 
unto you." Or, "When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all 
the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His 
glory; and before Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall 
separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from 
the goats." 

When Jesus says that He is the way, He means, does He not, that 
His is the true ethics, the true morality, the true mode of existence, 
the right manner of going, the right walk? 

We have had the ethics of Confucius, the sacred books of the Per- 
sians, the philosophies of the Hindus, the sublime discourses of Soc- 
rates and Plato, and many manifold efforts at the regulation of human 
life and conduct. Yet a man might spend his three score and ten years 
in perusal of these systems and he would never find the way. Intricate 
and confused would be his path. Like Justin Martyr of old, who trod, 

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the byways of all the philosophies, who had read Philo and Josephus 
and all the Greeks, but delighted to discover the truth as it is in Jesus; 
so any modern mind who will spend years of investigation of the sys- 
tems of old or the modern systems of ethics which leave Christian 
teaching out of the account will find that there is nothing final outside 
of the New Testament. 

Second — "I am the Truth," is the second assertion of the text. 
This deals, I take it, with the matter of doctrine, of teaching, even, we 
may say, with that taboed thing, Dogma. Dogma is what the church 
has decreed about Christ. Now if the church does not believe and has 
set forth by authority the same thing that Jesus taught about Himself, 
then dogma and truth are synonymous terms. Now the church 
says that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, was crucified, dead and 
buried, rose again, ascended into heaven, and shall come to judge the 
living and the dead. The church believes in the holy spirit, the holy 
church, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the 
life everlasting. 

Now is the truth as it is in Jesus consonant with this faith of 
the church. Well, Jesus says, "Before Abraham was I have existed." 
He says: "I and My Father are one." He says to the Heavenly Fath- 
er: "And now O Father, glorify thou Me with thine ownself with the 
glory which I had with thee before the world was." This claim is in 
Saint John. But note the end of Saint Luke, acknowledged by Harnak, 
as the valid work of the companion of Saint Paul. "And it came to 
pass while He blessed them He was parted from them and carried up 
into heaven and they worshipped Him and returned to Jerusalem with 
great joy." 

Third — "I am the Life." This third asserveration of Jesus Christ 
means that Jesus Christ is the mystic source of spiritual being. He is 
the fount of spiritual strength. He is the ultimate reality. Just as a 
seed is sown a bare grain, but God giveth it a body which it ultimately 
assumes, so there is a spiritual nature in man which is planted, in- 
creases, develops, matures, blossoms and bears fruit. 

Wesley was right. The human heart must consciously turn to 
Christ for salvation. Roger Williams was right. The individual must 
know Christ for Himself. Martin Luther was right. "Here I am, I 
cannot do otherwise, God help me," is the cry of the individual voicing 
his personal faith. 

That horrible German empire has been compacted about the kaiser, 
and its unity has been satanically strong. Alas, the Christian church 
has been worse than the allies when they had no common head. 

Let us remember that Jesus Christ is the life. There is no life in 
any part of the church except from Him. There is life in every part 
from Him. It is His holy declaration that: "I am the way, the truth, 
and the life/' and that "No man cometh unto the Father but by Me." 



UNITY IN CHRISTENDOM. 

(Sermon preached recently by Rev. Wythe L. Kinsolving. From Mal- 
achi First Chapter and Eleventh Verse.) 

"From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, my 
name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense 
shall be offered unto My Name, and a pure offering, for my name shall 
be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts." — The prophet, 
Malachi second verse. 

Men asked a year or two ago, "Why did God permit this great 
world war? If God is almighty and loving why does He not put 
an end to strife and bloodshed ? If Jesus is the Prince of Peace, how 
can He let men fight like mad dogs ? If God sent Jesus Christ to save 
men from their sins and to bind up broken hearts, how can the merciful 
Father allow a million broken hearts and a million desolate homes? 
Why does not God stop this wholesale murder and destruction?" These 
were the problems in men's minds. But now we are beginning to see 
the dawn through the morning twilight. Now we can almost see the 
sun burst over the horizon beyond the mountains of hope. Now we 
can catch a vision of the vast and changeless purpose of our Almighty 
Father. 

God is the Almighty and God is the All Merciful. In the realm of 
righteousness, might and mercy are united into one. "Mercy and 
Truth are met together, Righteousness and Peace have kissed each 
other." 

In the realm of reality ability creates responsibility. Competency 
to achieve purpose in the moral world is equivalent to the obligation 
to perform that function. To be able to do a thing means the bind- 
ing moral obligation to do that thing. Capactiy for certain kinds of 
service to others makes that service to others an imperative duty. Duty 
is the sublimest word not only in the English language, but in any 
language. England expects every man to do his duty, was Nelson's 
cry; it is applicable now to every living soul on this earth of God's. 
God our Father, expects every living soul in the flesh to do his and 
her duty. Now it is the realization of this truth that is blessing the 
world today. War came upon this country of ours like a powder 
thrown into a caldron of still liquid. A seething movement was created. 
Every one got busy, women and children knitted, men were mobilized 
into camps. A vast army has been created. Factories and plants have 
been crowded with orders. Cities are humming with renewed life and 
bustle and stir. 

Women and men are busy all over this nation today. Idleness is 
taboo. Loafing and laziness are excluded. Everybody is working 
with a will. A grand united effort is being made by our nations. To 
do what? To win the war? Why? 

Because we believe that out of the chaos of war will come a better 
human society. Out of the toil and tribulations of battle will come 
a new era of righteousness. Out of the boom and roar of the cannon 
will come a social regeneration and a moral purification of the human 
race. But let us think clearly, and vision keenly the way that lies be- 
fore uj, Th§ Church of God described in the New Testament waj 9Hf 

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united church. Now the Roman Catholicism that developed in the 
middle ages holds not much more, if any more, than one-half of the 
Christian allegiance of the whole world today. As a church Roman 
Christianity has failed, and cannot and shall not regenerate the world 
and society. The Greek Catholic church, the church that holds a hun- 
dred millions of Russians, has also failed. It has met with a rude 
shock and gone to pieces upon the rocks. 

The total Protestantism of these United States has most assur- 
edly and unqualifiedly also failed. The divided Protestantism of the 
United States cannot and shall not regenerate humanity. 

But there is something that the Roman Catholic, the Greek Cath- 
olic, the English and American Episcopal church, with its total adher- 
ence of perhaps forty million souls, and finally American Protestant- 
ism, with its twenty-odd millions of adherents — there is something I 
say, that they all hold in common, a Christian faith that belongs to all, 
a Christian standard that is no more of one than it is of another kind 
of Christianity and this Christian faith has not failed, will not fail, 
cannot fail, but shall exist on this earth in all its fullness and vitality 
when Jesus Christ comes to judge the living and the dead. 

This common faith is the faith in the power of Jesus Christ to 
give new life to the human soul. It is the faith that recognizes the 
voice and teaching of Jesus Christ and teaching of the Everlasting 
Father. It is the faith expressed by St. Peter when he cried "Thou 
art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." It is the faith that St. 
Paul declared justified the soul in the sight of God, and made him cry, 
"There is therefore no condemnation unto those that are in Christ 
Jesus." 

It is the old-time religion, the religion of Paul and Silas, the relig- 
ion of Peter and John, of Justic Martyr, of Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna, 
of Timothy Bishop of Ephesus, of Titus Bishop of Crete, of Pothinus 
Bishop of Lyons, of Archbishop Remigius of Rheims, who baptized 
Clovis, the ancient kind of the Francs, the religion of Queen Bertha of 
Kent, of St. Martin of Tours, of St. Alban, Britain's first martyr, the 
religion of the ancient Scots and Irish Britons, the religion of Mother 
England for twelve hundred years before, the Protestantism of the Re- 
formation. It was the religion of Wycliffe, the morning star of the 
Reformation, of Calvin before he went to Geneva, of Luther before his 
clash with the pope. Well, you say, but what church is this? What 
modern church preserves these principles and carries them out abso- 
lutely? May I answer this question politely: No modern church does. 
Not one. Nor can any one. 

We must have a new inclusive, comprehensive, all-comprehending 
church that will not exclude but include, will not anathematize but will 
sympathize. That will not damn men by her course, but will bless men 
by her love and charity. This church must prove the deity of Jesus 
Christ by doing His works. It must draw all mankind unto Jesus 
Christ by lifting Him up on the cross in its own life and activities. 

Christ must be crucified before men in the person of His saints 
in His church who must suffer to lead all mankind to follow the exam- 
ple of His humility. We are catching this spirit afresh, The war has 

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wrought miracles. The might of the moneyed men is united with the 
might of the arms of the working men to save society from German 
lust and cruelty and vileness. Like a great fire sweeping over a city the 
war is purging out and purifying pride and class feeling and social 
snobbishness and the sins of envy and malice and uncharitableness. 

Sympathy and cooperation and kindly fellowship have been born 
of the womb of war. Men and women today are not Virginians or 
Tennesseans, but Americans; not Americans merely, but members of 
the allied forces. 

We fight, we labor, we pray, we give our money, our zeal, our un- 
stinted toil not for a state, not even for the United States — no, we do 
all for the help of humanity, for the saving of human life, for the up- 
lift of human society the world over. 

We believe in the salvation and regeneration of the sons of men 
everywhere. We want free seas for commerce, free trade for the 
world's goods, the common realization benefits of production given 
widest possible distribution, the rights and privileges of the so-called 
upper classes to be bestowed upon the once-termed lower classes. 

We want the mercy and truth and the righteousness of Jesus 
Christ and the will of His father to be done on earth even as it is done 
among the angels and archangels in heaven. 

We want, in short, the vision of the ancient prophet Malachi to 
hasten its realization. What the prophet desired then that we are de- 
siring now, not one isolated American so desiring, not a few English 
here and there so hoping and praying, nay, but a great, mighty, mas- 
sive will of millions of minds aspiring, praying, working, striving to 
bring about, by every means possible to human wills, this result. 

We want to win the war and we want to win the world to alle- 
giance to Jesus Christ and His democracy, His equality, His fraternity. 
We know that the church of the living God, the pillar and the ground 
of the truth shall be His agency. 

Out of the church comes the wisdom of Woodrow Wilson. Out of 
the church comes the justice of Arthur Balfour. Out of the church 
comes the inflexible zeal of Lloyd George. Out of the church the un- 
bending energy of Gen. Pershing. Out of the church the courage and 
penetrating acumen and amazing strategy of Marshal Foch. Out of 
the church the marvelous and magnificent valor of British, of French 
and American, Portuguese, Italian and Belgian troops. 

When Christianity and Christian purposes shall have triumphed 
ovfer the silly and stubborn nationalism of the deluded German nation, 
we shall see that the world has moved onward toward the fulfillment 
of the words of the text: "From the rising of the sun even unto the 
going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles, 
And in every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a pure 
offering for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord 
of Hosts." — Malachi second. For from the east to the west, and among 
all nations on this earth of God's the Christian Altar shall be erected. 
The Christian faith shall be established, and prayer, like incense, shall 
rise heavenward, and the pure offering of the body and blood of Jesus 
Christ, the Lamb of God, shall be offered daily unto the Holy Father in, 
heaven. Amen. — f 3 — 



SAYS CHURCH UNITY WILL COME ALONG WITH LEAGUE OP 

NATIONS 



Rev. W. L. Kinsolving Preaches Sermon and Writes Article on the 

Future Church. 

Rev. Wythe L. Kinsolving, of St. Paul's Episcopal church, is in 
favor not only of a league of nations, but of unity among the christian 
churches. He believes that out of the war will come such a movement. 
In a recent sermon he elaborated on his view3 on this matter. An ar- 
ticle which Mr. Kinsolving contributed to the Southern Churchman was 
embodied in his sermon. The subject is so full of interest that the 
article is reprinted herewith. 

Mr. Editor: The recent interchange of letters of Christian love 
and esteem that have passed between some of our American bishops 
and the Russian church (which we often term the "Greek church" be- 
cause it represents a development of the Greek branch of the original 
church and not a development of Western or Roman Christianity with 
its center at Rome), signfies a longing on the part of the bodies or 
parts of the body, to effect a closer relationship. 

There seems to be a tendency in American Protestantism to draw 
its separate parts and divisions into a closer organization. Men are 
saying that the war is breaking down denominational barriers and 
welding these forces into a unity of spirit in the bond of peace. 

This is a consummation devoutly to be wished, but it is not all 
that God's Word seems to require. 

If the church is a kingdom it is nowhere said to be a monarchy. 
The King, the Head, the only King and the only Head named in the 
Gospel or the other Scriptures of the New Testament, is the Lord Jesus 
Christ Himself. Yet this King and Head sent at Pentecost and de- 
clared as His vicegerent could not perform his function of leadership 
and direction of the Church. 

It was generally thought that the councils of the bishops, the 
ecumenical councils of the early centuries expressed the voice of the 
Holy Spirit, the will of Jesus Christ, the King and Head of His body, 
the Church. 

A new factor is arising in the world to point the way toward the 
solution of our problem of getting the voice of the Holy Spirit heard 
and accepted by every part and every individual who are comprehended 
in the Kingdom of God on earth. For the moment we may consider 
the Kingdom and the Church to be coterminous. This is a concession to 
such as believe the church to be a kingdom. The downfall of monarch- 
ies and the uprearing of republics is at hand. The overthrow of auto- 
crats and the rule of democracy is at hand. The representative gov- 
ernment of the people, for the people and by the people is winning its 
way upon the earth. 

Can the Roman monarchy remain an autocracy, a kingdom amid 
the general change that is near ? 

Shall not the representative principle prevail in the Roman organ- 
ization, and shall not the remodeled organization of the Jtoroan branch 



of the church then be accepted as a valid and integral part of the Holy 
Catholic church, with which branch the rest of Christendom can confer 
and determine and determine upon closer affiliation and a real organic 
unification ? 

There can be no Christian unity with Roman Christianity left out. 
Nor with the Russo-Greek Christianity left out. Nor with the Angli- 
can branch of Christianity left out, including the Episcopal church in 
these United States. We can certainly pray, and it is our duty to pray 
on scriptural grounds for the growth of principal of consiliar expres- 
sion in the Roman Communion. We can and ought to pray for the 
loosening of the tight bonds of monarchial control in the Roman or- 
ganization. 

Kaiserism, Caesarism, monarchical rule, are growing rapidly un- 
fashionable upon God's earth. This is the center or heirarchy. "Ye 
shall sit upon thrones judging the twelve tribes," Christ's promise to 
the twelve, is fully balanced by His statement, "Let him that is chief 
among you become as he that doth serve." "If I, your Lord and Mas- 
ter, have washed your feet," cannot mean a formal ceremonial act. It 
must mean and does mean, the bishop be the true servant. Let the 
priest or the minister be a minister indeed, lowly, humble and self- 
sacrificing, like the Saviour Himself. 

It is not the idea of a priest offering the sacrifice of the Body and 
Blood of Jesus Christ as the agent and servant of the people present 
that is repugnant to and unpopular with our national democratic mind. 
It is the insiduous power of the priest, the arrogance and haughtiness 
of bishops, and the cruelty and tyranny of medieval papal rulers that 
men and women detest and abominate, just as they do the same things 
in Kaiser Wilhelm. And for the same reason. Both are ungodly and 
unscriptural and contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Could the 
whole church on earth be organized with ministers duly ordained ac- 
cording to Apostolic practice, organized into Diocese, guided each by a 
true shepherd or bishop, with national conventions and an international 
ecumenical representative council at intervals of five years or so, I 
can see no reason why the church could not be so reorganized and re- 
united according to the mode of organization that seems to have pre- 
vailed in the first two or three centuries. 

The Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian bodies would not re- 
quire much readjustment, the Baptist bodies might be allowed with full 
authority the practice of immersion, even adult immersion in any case 
where infant baptism was not acceptable to the believer as entirely ad- 
equate. Lutheran bodies and the Christian disciples would not find such 
an organization distasteful, especially if lay representation in the 
original group conventions became an accepted principle. 

As to liturgical modes of worship, the great liturgical forms of the 
past should be utilized, but great liberty in the use of ejaculatory, im- 
promptu and extemporaneous prayer should be granted. 

We have no more right to gag individual members of the church 
today than St. Paul did in his day. But to lose the liturgical glories 
of the past would be as silly as to give up the Old Testament itself be- 
cause we have the New. When the Holy Spirit in the whole body of 

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the church had free expression, the pneumatic gifts would be multi- 
plied and the voice of the Christianized people would become more and 
more the voice of God. An enlightened and reunited church would be- 
come the stabilizer of society, the bulwark against selfish nationalism 
and the agency by which the former kingdom of this world should be- 
come the Kingdom of our God and His Christ. 
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 



REV. WYTHE LEIGH KINSOLVING ANSWERS WM. T. ELLIS 

ON Y. M. C. A. 



(An Open Letter to The Editor of the News.) 

William T. Ellis has been writing at some length in the papers, 
under what sort of a syndicate, or under what auspices I know not, and 
registering some interesting views and impressions upon the general 
religious institution. In an article that appeared in The Chattanooga 
News on Saturday he notes that our nation is remarkably religious, 
humanitarian, altruistic, philanthropic, and devoted to Christian social 
service, but men do not go to church as much as they used to do. He 
then complains of the varied and unreal character of a great deal of 
preaching, and even boldly suggests that community gatherings might 
take the place of church-going. 

I was reminded of what Canon James, of Worcester Cathedral said 
in Westminster Abbey at the end of last February when I heard him 
speak of his impressions derived from experience as a British chaplain. 
Canon James said the soldiers would bring back with them from the 
trenches a very vital and real religion, the religion of duty and obliga 
tion to do a man's part in the world. They would scorn anything that 
was ultra formal, or tediously labored in the way of religious services, 
but they had a most splendid sense of justice and righteousness, an ad- 
miration for manliness and virile devotion to high and noble principles 
of. conduct. 

I have also read with deep personal interest the criticism of the Y. 
M. C. A., published recently in the Churchman, New York, and reprint- 
ed in the Literary Digest of recent date. 

The critic seemed to find cant and sham replacing reverence and 
the actuality of worship in some forms of Y. M. C. A. activity. These 
were his impressions, not mine. Yet, I would record here some defi- 
nite views of my own which, like Canon James,' are derived from per- 
sonal observation and experience in work here in America and in 
France with soldiers. 

The pan-protestant organization, the Y. M. C. A., does not stress 
the importance of Sacrament of the Holy Communion. As a secretary 
of the Y. M. C. A., the writer was told that one was not to be permitted 
to "perform any priestly functions," as an expeditionary secretary of 
the Y. M. C. A. Yet, when I arrived in France there was a dearth of 
army chaplains, and priestly functions were rare indeed, at that time 
among the American troops. 

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On the other hand, the Roman Catholic church holds vast and elab- 
orate celebrations of The Mass, that is the Roman Celebration of the 
Holy Communion in Latin, and if newspapers are true, thousands of 
Roman Catholics attend these services. 

Thus we have a strange anomaly. Protestantism seems to be es- 
chewing the celebration of the Sacrament of the Holy Communion; and 
the Roman Catholic church, building its own Knights of Columbus 
buildings, and segregating its religious adherents unto themselves, is 
laying heavy and potent emphasis on that which pan-protestantism is 
voluntarily omitting and intentionally minimizing. 

Now, the Saviour in the sixth chapter of Saint John, prefigured 
and prophesied the importance of this great ordinance and rite. The 
night before He was crucified He established it with definite and un- 
questionable command. "This do in remembrance of me," Saint Paul in 
the letter to Corinth, the eleventh chapter and twenty-fourth verse 
reiterates and re-emphasizes this observance with most positive and 
unqualified urgency. To hedge or to dodge the will of Jesus Christ 
in this matter to evade the commands of the Apostles, is to depart from 
Christianity and to try to work out something new in the place of that 
which the Founder of His religion established. 

If men are to go to church to be entertained by preaching, by 
lively and moving music, by spicy and racy political utterances, by 
anything in fact that merely seeks to interest and amuse, why should 
they not rather go to the theater and the opera ? There they will get 
better entertainment, far better music and find a more pleasurable ex- 
citement than at church. If however, the Christian religion is insep- 
arably bound up, as Saint Paul says it is, with the sacrifice of the 
death of Jesus Christ, and the benefits which we receive thereby, why 
shall we not all of us Christians place emphasis there, upon the cele- 
bration of this rite, this ordinance of Jesus, this thing that He com- 
manded and lovingly enjoined upon all His true followers ? 

Sacerdotal acts will only be despised when they aye the acts of 
men who seek to build up and control, by virtue of their office as 
priests. If ministers of Christ are priests in the same sense as Jesus 
Christ Himself, a priest after the order of Melchizedek, one who served 
in every act His terrestial experience, One who ministered and gave 
His life's blood as proof of His willingness to minister, a ransom, as 
He said, for many, whereby the Father forgave men their sins and 
filled them with His Spirit of truth and love — if ministers of Christ, 
are thus indeed servants of all, and if they lay stress on this act of 
obedience to their Lord, shall they not be followed? Shall they not 
be leaders in spiritual affairs, not by virtue of any priestly arrogating 
to themselves the power of a caste, but by virtue of their humble obedi- 
ence to lead all men into fellowship and obedience to Jesus Christ? 

In the reorganization and reintegration, in the renovation and new 
concentration of Christian thought and this great world war, shall we 
not purpose that are bound to come after get back to Christ, indeed, 
back to the simple faith of the apostolic age, back to the Breaking of 
Bread and the prayers, and not depend too largely on more excitable 
preaching that so often stirs momentarily, and leaves the souls slack i» 

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carrying out the momentary stirrings for lack of later nutrition and 
spiritual food. The Body and Blood of Christ which are spiritually 
taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper are the soul's 
life and sustenance. If men and women would hold to their allegiance, 
and try to keep worthy motives and principles of daily life and charac- 
ter, what better way than to feed, as the Lord hath commanded, upon 
the spiritual food ordained by Christ Himself for the soul's nutrition. 



JACOB'S LADDER SERMON. 



Genesis XXVLI and John I: the End. Being the story of 'Jacob's 
Ladder' and Christ's parable in regard to Jacob's ladder. 

"The presence of the Almighty was made manifest to Jacob in his 
dream. Bethel, the house of God, was the material result of this vis- 
ion in sleep. Nathaniel or Saint Bartholomew was brought to Christ 
by St. Phillip. Jesus had seen him at prayer under the fig tree, where 
it was his custom to pray in private and alone. He was mystified by 
Christ's having observed him at prayer. Jesus told him that hereafter 
he was to see angels ascending and descending upon Jesus Christ Him- 
self, the son of maa, just as Jacob had seen in his dream the vision of 
angels ascending and descending. Jesus, the Son of God and the Son 
of Man is then Jacob's ladder, according to His own testimony of Him- 
self. He bridges the gap between God and men. Direct communion 
between earth and heaven are through Him. He is the one true media- 
tor between God and man. But a mediator is a priest. In the Epistle 
to the Hebrews, chapter after chapter describe Him as the great high 
priest, the true and only mediator of God to us and of us to God. "He 
learned obedience by the thing which he suffered." Inasmuch as he 
Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that 
are tempted. 

"He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. The 
presence of God was embodied, enfteshed, incarnated in Jesus Christ 
Himself. In Him dwelt all the fulness of the God-head bodily. He that 
hath seen Me hath seen the Father. He afterward said to this very 
St. Phillip that brought his brother Nathanied to Him, "I am the way, 
the Truth and the Life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me." 
He said in the same context not only was His body the temple of the 
Holy Ghost, but He said He would raise this body up again. When 
He arose from the grave He fulfilled this promise. St. Paul says that 
the church is this same body of Jesus Christ. 'We are members of His 
body, His flesh, and of His bones,' says St. Paul. "The church of the 
living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth is the body of Christ 
in which His spirit dwells.' When we are baptized we are made mem- 
bers of Christ. When we eat His body and His blood in the holy com- 
munion we are joined to Him and joined together with one another in 
one body. This body, says St. Paul, is the holy temple, the habitation 
of God as spirit. 

"Jesus Christ is then the mediator between earth and heaven. His 
body is the Holy Catholic church, the communion of His holy ones, or 

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His saints. Jesus Christ is the Great Sigh Priest who ever liveth to 
make intercession for us. He pleads His own life and sacrifice eter- 
nally before the throne of God on high. 

"Now the holy communion is the place where we find Jesus Christ 
especially. Every reception of the holy communion rightly received is 
climbing one round upon Jacob's ladder, and coming closer to heaven. 
For Jesus Christ is the way to heaven. There is no other name under 
heaven given among men whereby we may be saved.' 

"When the ancient priest Melchizedek met Abraham, he brought 
forth bread and wine and with religious rite Abraham and Melchizedek 
celebrated a mutual covenant. He was the priest of the Most High 
God. He was king of Salem, which means peace. He was Malek Za- 
thek, in name, which means King of righteousness. Long years after- 
ward the Psalmist wrote of the Messiah, Who has to come, 'Thou art 
a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,' — The writer of the 
epistle to the Hebrews writing to Jews who knew Jewish history states 
that Jesus Christ is thus the King of Peace and the King of Righteous- 
ness being a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 

Likewise, as Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest after the order 
of Melchizedek, so are we all a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 
We also, says St. Peter, as living stones, are built up into a spiritual 
house (note the unity of the Church of God) a spiritual house, an Holy 
Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus 
Christ. Now only in and through Jesus Christ are our sacrifices ac- 
ceptable to God. But ye are, says he, a chosen generation, a royal 
priesthood, an holy nation (note that he calls the whole church a na- 
tion, although of course from all the nations, and has members of every 
nation in it). 

"What then of the ministers of Christ? What of those set apart 
by ordination to offer the consecrated sacrifice of Christ's holy body 
and upon His altar ? They are likewise kings and priests unto God the 
Father like all the rest of true Christians. They share Christ's eternal 
Priesthood and Kingdom like all other Christian People. 

"Just as Jesus Christ is interceding on High, so these priests of 
the church militant on earth are pleading and interceding for the peo- 
ple while they minister at the Altars of Jesus Christ. Just as God 
sent Jesus Christ to forgive the sins of the penitent, so Jesus sends 
these priests to forgive in His place and by His authority the sins of 
those who want to reform. 

"Jesus Christ, the Great High Priest, said to the Twelve, 'As my 
Father sent me, even so I send you.' Whose sins you forgive are for- 
given unto them, whose sins ye retain are retained ; Christ's authority 
cannot be questioned. He proved it by offering Himself as a Lamb 
without spot or blemish, as a sacrifice for our sins. His willing death, 
His rising from the tomb, His ascension into heaven, His sending the 
Holy Spirit with power from on High, His promise, "Lo I am with you 
even unto the end of the ages," all these prove His absolute authority 
to forgive our sins. . .. 



"But what Jesus Christ Himself can do is to forgive me if I am 
truly resolved to be and do better. And this same thing any of His or- 
dained ministers and priests of the sanctuary has the same power to 
do that He has. Else His words are not true when He says, "Whose 
sins ye forgive they are forgiven unto them, and whose sins ye retain 
are retained. Or, whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound 
in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed 
in heaven.' 

"The church is the place for confession to the Name of Jesus 
Christ. Not to enter into His gates with thanksgiving and praise is to 
deny Him before men, and be denied before the angels of God in heav- 
en. Why and how? Because the corporate church is His body. The 
people of the church are the people of God. The priests of the sanctu- 
ary are the agents of His laws and His rules and His teachings. The 
priests of the sanctuary are His representative in heaven. They have 
authority to bind and to loose. They have the command to forgive or 
retain sin. 

"Only through the character and goodness did Christ win His 
holy right to purge human souls. Only by preserving character and 
goodness and love can or ought His ministers of the sanctuary to re- 
tain their hold upon the conscience of men. Christ Himself, is the lad- 
der on whom we climb to heaven. The holy church, His body, His 
flesh and His bones, is the ladder because it stands for and represents 
Christ Himself. Therefore, if we want to go to heaven we ought to go 
to church. 

"I am most doubtful if those who do not go to church, although 
living under its very protection and influence, will be considered by 
Christ fit to go to Heaven. They are denying Christ before men. If 
communicants, they are violating their most sacred oath of allegiance 
to Christ. 

"If they believe by their civic acts and their social prominence 
they shall be saved, they ought to remember the destiny of Dives, the 
rich man, and the tender loving Saviour's scorn of riches and social 
place. Humility and penitence, lowliness of heart, and sorrow for our 
ignorances and negligences are acceptable to God. Pride, vain glory 
and hypocrisy are burned up in the fiery glance of His all seeing eye. 
If we would reach heaven, we ought to set our feet on the first rung 
of Jacob's ladder in baptism, climb higher rungs in holy communion, 
over and over, always truly repenting for our previous sins, stead- 
fastly purposing to lead a new life, and have a lively faith in God's 
mercy through Christ, with a thankful remembrance of His death, and 
being in love and charity with all mankind. We eat and drink condem- 
nation if we are not so minded. We despise God, dishonor Jesus Christ, 
do not discern His body, spurn His blood shed for us, and put Him to an 
open shame. Only by penitence and prayer, only by humility and sorrow 
for sin, only by earnest desire to be like Christ in our own life and char- 
acter, can we fitly and reverently receive His body and His blood from 
the altar of His presence." 

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REV. W. L. KINSOLVING. 



New Minister of St. Paul's During Absence Chaplain Loaring Clark, 
Who is Serving With the Red Cross in France. 

Patriotic St. Paul's Episcopal Church has as temporary successor 
to the pastor Chaplain W. F. Loaring Clark, U. S. A., during his period 
of service in France, the Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, M. A., B. D., 
lately returned from the war zone in Europe. 

Mr. Kinsolving went to France as a Y. M. C. A. expeditionary 
secretary, returning two months ago, since which time the minister 
has been engaged in making patriotic addresses. 

Epitome of Ministry. 

Since the completion of his education in 1906 Mr. Kinsolving 
has hejd several important charges, the first being the Church of the 
Epiphany, in Richmond, Va., 1906-1909. Later, until 1911, he was in 
charge of St. George's church, at Perryman, Md. One year was spent 
in charge of Mount -Calvary, St. Louis. After this, Trinity church, 
Winchester, and St. Barnabas, Tullahoma for three years preceded his 
call to the Church of the Holy Communion in New York City, where he 
served as assistant. 

Interest attaches to the fact that Mr. Kinsolving was educated in 
the south. A course in the Episcopal High school in Virginia in 1897; 
his M. A. degree in the University of Virginia in 1902, his B. D. in the 
Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1906 forms the roster. 

Rev. Kinsolving is the youngest of six sons of Rev. O. A. Kinsolving, 
for fifty years a clergyman of Virginia. He is an uncle of Rev. W. O. 
Kinsolving, of Calvary church, Summit, N. J., and a cousin of Bishop 
Otey, first bishop of Tennessee. 



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